Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow.

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.

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

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.

No level of attention is ever enough to sacrifice your dignity.

They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

A word of advice, don't point your #$%^&^& finger at crazy people

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.

It's far better to love impefectly than not to love at all.

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.