The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.

believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.

The heart of a man is like deep water