Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.

We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us together.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.

Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other

Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.

Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.

‎Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me.

You sense and feel something different than I do, even if we lick the same kitten.

Just remember to say THANK YOU sometimes, for all of these everyday extraordinary gifts.

If you have mindfulness, if you feel safe, you recognize that you have plenty of conditions to be happy already, and that you don't need to run into the future in order to get a few more conditions.

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.

When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very little is left to chance.

and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.

I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.