Laughter is carbonated holiness.

And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.

You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.