just know that it takes a bit of courage to unlearn that shame, and to be there for others when they try to unlearn that shame, and that it all gets easier after you feel how healthy it is.

Where's the everlasting peace? Is there even such a thing? Or do we war like alien races war, eternally, against ourselves?

Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started with subverting that purpose.

Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.

I do not interfere, and people become rich by themselves.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

By day each soul must walk within its shadow. Only night can make us whole again.

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well.