“Nature is not the number-one mystery, Ive learned. Its the heart that takes top honors.”

“Beauty is the worst kind of lie.”

“The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.”

“Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.”

“Fox-TrotBy the stream the fox and she-fox stoodNose to nose beneath the starsDancing the music of the woods.The deer rapped a beat with their hooves,The ravens sang from raven heartsAs by the strea...”

“When I was a boy, that was all I wantedto grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I had a basement full of failed wing projects. Boards and capes and motors, even a pile of found feathers I o...”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

“Men work together,' I told him from the heart,'Whether they work together or apart.”

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”

“So resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity.”

“It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”

“Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all...”