And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.

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.

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.

...to be paid for one's joy is to steal.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.