In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.