One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.

I’m starting to think that you have a really bad habit of trying to save me.”She turns shy and looks down. “You are worth saving.

How easy it would be just to let go, to go willingly into all that wonderful energy.

Coincidence makes sense only with you.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel

One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

Hillary Clinton wants to put the government totally in charge of your health care despite the fact it's no good. It'll be much more expensive than even today.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

It's the sustained ability to change that really counts.