To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Trust to some was placing all your insecurities and beliefs in one single person, and hoping he or she wouldn’t squash them.

I am positive like a proton.........and just as acidic like the Hydrogen ion......

To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that feeling. I always feel that way.

No place is the same because everything is shifting always.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.