They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

God’s Creation - fulfillment of love

She may be crazy but at least she isn't you.

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

Everyman and every living being have the same birth day: The birthday of the universe is our real birthday!

Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.