“The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last”

“You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.”

“I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David's, Solomon's, the wailing of a coyote, th...”

“Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.”

“It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...”

“You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.”

“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.”

“Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.”

“The features of character are carved out of adversity.”

“You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.”

“All I can be is me- whoever that is. ”

“I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the room, went to the stove and made and poured myself a cup of hot chocolate and then clicked on the ...”

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. ...”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been eng...”