The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.

I have a particular dislike of human pride. And if you think that you can engineer outcomes, that's a manifestation of pride. Among other things, it's impractical. It just doesn't work. The world doesn't work that way.

And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.

To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the past.