Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.