I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.

If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.

I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.

The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?

Standing beside you, I took an oathto make your life simpler by complicating mineand what I always thought would happen did:I was lifted up in joy.

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

You cannot betray others without betraying your inner positive self in the process.

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

I don't think we've got the gospel right yet.I don't think the liberals have it right. But I don't think we have it right either. None of us has arrived at orthodoxy.

You come out of a woman and you spend the rest of your life trying to get back inside.

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it