Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self-consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals

A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.