I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

Some studies show that we're physically attracted, like animal attraction, to people that have a different immune system to us. So even though I love cologne, it's probably keeping me from finding a good mate.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

We see in others what we want and what we fear.

Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.