He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

We two make banquets of the plainest fare In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measure We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.

A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.