Some women have a pulsing energy almost too sharp and salty to endure and when they are in pain their pain is ferocious and shatters all over the place.

There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say.

You'll never be as OK with the thought of dying as you are in the moments when you know that you are truly living

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy even if you're not part of their happiness.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

Topcats often begin as underdogs.

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

Spiritual joy is devotion, it's like a virus you know? It's a benevolent virus, but it spreads. It's infectious. Ram Dass was like a mentor in those days.