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"If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them."
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"Love poured out multiplies love poured in."
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"Soil is earth's barefoot and when we walk barefoot, two barefoot touches each other with love!"
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"Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate."
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"Understanding is the bridge between two minds, love is the bridge between two souls."
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"You cannot reach God until you begin to pay attention to humans."
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"Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments."
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"Wherever you travel to, I would love to receive a beautiful postcard."
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"Think of the times that others remembered your name and used it kindly. How did it make you feel? When you use someone's name it makes him or her feel recognized, appreciated, and special."
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"We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation."
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"You may not able to hear the song of your heart but the universe can."
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"When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever."
Life
"My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation."
Friendship
"The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down."
Thought
"If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them."
Connection
"There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?"
Time
"The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists."
Performance
"All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma."
Family
"I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time."
Time
"Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory."
Memory
"I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff."
Fiction
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