“I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.”

We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.

Adverbs are a sign that you’ve used the wrong verb.

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world’s hard work.

We live in all we seek.

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding a workable compromise between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time – give it, give it all, give it now.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

Write about winter in the summer.

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.

Caring passionately about something isn’t against nature, and it isn’t against human nature. It’s what we’re here to do.

You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.

Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.

It’s cool when fans spend so much time making things for me.

Being self-aware is cool but being god aware Changes everything.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

That’s going to be the biggest problem, to make people feel like it’s cool for them to like my music.

I’m not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I’m definitely an individual.

And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.