I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.