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I fell in love with Tibet because their essential mission was to keep a continual stream of prayer. To me they kept the world from spinning out of control just by being a civilization on the roof of the world in that continuous state of prayer. The prayers are etched on wheels, they feel them with their hands like braille and turn them. It’s spinning prayer like cloth. That was my perception as a young person. I didn’t quite understand the whole thing but I felt protected. We grew up at a time when nuclear war seemed imminent with air raid drills and lying on the floor under your school desk. To counterbalance that destruction was this civilization of monks living high in the Himalayas who were continuously praying for us, for the planet and for all of nature. That made me feel safe.

patti smith, interview in Bomb magazine

I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing, their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling, their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.

janette winterson

No wonder we are confused by the tiny fraction of a whole that we see. It is, after all, like trying to comprehend the panorama of the desert or sea through a rolled-up newspaper.

jane goodall

Poets think they are pitchers, when they are actually catchers.

jack spicer

The Earth is not gigantic and the Moon is not slight, but the Earth has a core and the Moon does not. Or rather, if the Moon has a core, it is undetectably small and inert, like a frozen mouse.

amy leach

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

tom stoppard

But of course there’s no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty  and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It’s the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons.

dave eggers

I saw a crow building a nest. I was watching him very carefully, kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It’s just for you.

tom waites

Shakespeare once said, hell hath no fury than a bunch of alpha women pissed off at the slow pace of cancer research, or something along those lines.

katie couric, 2013 aspen ideas

A hard fall means a high bounce…if you’re made of the right material.

anonymous