The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

The heart knows nothing except its own mind.

the heart knows nothing except its own mind

and when hecatches meoff guardand says'i love you'i catch himoff guardand say 'i need your help.

loss takes as much as love does, sometimes more

the sadness will ebbthe trouble is the time it might take

Thoughts can follow you anywhere.

you live each day one at a timeyou live every day all at onceyou live with the possibility of good-byeyou move on.

A Cue from NatureRun outside during a thunderstormThat downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilarationThat’s what unlonely is like

When I turned to look at you, I was afraid to move again—the moment was just too beautiful to be lost.

It is a horrible wonderful thing to be in love with you. To get to hear you sing for hour after hour but never be the subject of the song. To listen and listen and listen.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.", October 31, 1977]

Make use of every friend— and every foe.

Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.