Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.

My night shall be remembered for a starThat outshone all the suns of all men's days

...for Christians typical dating can often be a swerver - an approach to relationships that wants to go in a different direction than the one God has for us.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

It's going to scare some people, because that's what good music does.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.

We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.