Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.

Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

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