“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”

“if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away”

“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eye...”

“She knew Paul D was adding something to her lifesomething she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearab...”

“Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.”

“More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.”

“Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.”

“People dont realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart. J. Krishnamurti. The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any goo...”

“It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a lovely flower or cloud or star, or learn a verse to brighten anothers dull ...”