That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not getting any younger.
Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?
We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet
Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding. . . . Just this once I wanted to let it rip.
What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is the possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek.
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.
What controls your attention, controls your life
Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.
I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.
Our greatest natural resources are our hearts and minds, together with those of the people around us.