... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Heaven in not out there, it is in your blissful heart.

My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.