Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Music give infinite strength.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.

So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let it blast 'til my TV lay in pieces.

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

I've always thought surfing is a reflection of who you are.

I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.

So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you?

Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.