She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.

Television is a passivity.

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.