People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.