Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it.

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.

It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.

Most of us are never seen, not clearly, and when we are we likely jump and run.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late.

If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.

One who wishes to cross the ocean first builds a ship.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to us - and the forms reflect that.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.

My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then.

In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.

I haven't been trying to be anything other than myself.

I hope and look forward to the day that there will be a female president of the United States.

The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof.