When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Love, we are a small pond.

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

Everything pays for growing tame.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

... people get confidential at midnight.

Cherish your wilderness.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

If you can cut the head off of this broom-goober with that sword, then I'll believe you can gank zombies with it.

NSA, the only part of government that actually listens.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

With supernatural things, I have heard ghosts, but I've never seen ghosts. I do seek ghosts and I would love to see one, but I would crap my pants.

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I don't know, in view of the situation, and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage - the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

The organization that can't communicate can't change, and the corporation that can't change is dead.

My dad is a natural-born encourager. The last person who will ever tell you to lower your sights or give up your dream.