My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the only things worth believing at al.

Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to forst and betrayal.

I dwell in possibility.

You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.

The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.

I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.

The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world.