So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment

The world is what you make of it

She concluded that to be able to live without regrets, one has to let go of life that one has planned to give space to life which has been destined.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.

If there is one bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterward.

If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.