Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward.

It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise.

I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn't that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in the past. I wanted to have back just one sunny afternoon together.

This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.

If you let fear make decisions for you, fear will make good decisions - but only for its own sake, not yours. p. 161

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

I am just like you, Destined to play my part.And leave, In the nature of my departure at least, Some kind of sweet message behindIn the fathomless pattern I make.

Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

I don't know whether you [musician] can be all things to everybody, which is why there are different kinds of music.

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.