“Weather creates character.”

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

Desire creates its own object.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

The past is a sorry country.

I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

The behaviour of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather.

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.

Our friendship will weather the current disagreement as well, to grow even stronger in the future.

God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.

Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned without express written permission.