The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

Nothing that is will always be.- Open Mic Singer

Be aware, putting on a poker face can backfire during your first impressions because it can make people uncomfortable and make you more difficult to read and harder to get to know.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

I'm more of a "let the man come to me" girl.

All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim situations. It was always cartoony.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

To remind me, pain is the best teacher

Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.