Always love to the point of madness,” he said, “or else what is the point of love?

One of the great mysteries,” he said, running his finger down my cheek, “is what makes two people right for each other.

Jenny Bell, you’re quite an enigma. But that’s true of every artist. And I’d rather be with a woman who can’t be fully known than one who is all surface and no soul.

The Kabbalah says if we have not fulfilled our condition during one life, we must commence another... until we have acquired the condition that fits our reunion with God.

I wouldn’t think it happens easily or often, never for some people. I imagine a love like that is like a fire starting with a spark and growing into a blaze becoming an engulfing passion too hot for most people to withstand.

What we do is a wonder, an art, and we have a responsibility to do it well.

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

The lines change. Did you know that? Destiny is not fixed. It’s a probable path, but life alters it. Otherwise, how boring life would be, non?

There’s an answer to every question even if it’s elusive. The Kabbalah tells us that there’s a level of our souls where we all connect to all the world’s accumulated knowledge. Jung agreed, just used different words and called it the collective unconscious. It manifests itself in an inner voice we all can hear if we listen deeply enough.

All you have to do is open yourself up to the cosmos as it lays itself before you. See it in all its mysterious dimensions. Without prejudice. Without assumption... All you ever needed was the key to open yourself to it. And that key is the wonder of the world. All the songs you could never remember but couldn’t forget? You can find them now.