“When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?”

“At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.”

“The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away.I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.”

“i didn't know there were different lines of aliveness, and two worlds contained by each other.”

“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.”

“In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life.”

“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”