Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin with a tremble, a breath. Music begins with a vibration . . . And God created the whole universe from an atom no bigger than a thought.

Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast..." He shakes his head. "Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird.

The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well

We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.

Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.