When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

I just prefer my fiction with more teeth.

When love is not madness, it is not love...

Let the dark side of another does not affect our peaceful life.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

I sold my soul to rock 'n' roll.

I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

I work in three shades of black.

Maybe tomorrow when He looks down Every green field and every town All of his children every nation There'll be peace and good, brotherhood... Crystal blue persuasion.