When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey.

Life is fragmentary, and the pattern that creativity can offer is not one that is imposed, not something rigid, but rather something which can reveal the intrinsic patterns of that fragmentation. Things are in a perpetual dance, but there is an order. It's not really random at all.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

I don't want to conquer you; I just want to climb you.

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.