Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.

I started going to Bible school really early in life. Being raised a Jehovah's Witness, I had to read the Bible over and over. These stories were so horrifying and really difficult to reconcile. For me, Noah wasn't the story of the graham cracker box with the little animals it was horrifying. I would ask the same questions as a child. "Well, what about the little kids? What about the dogs and cats?"