My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.

These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.

Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.