Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.

I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire for communication too; without the answering voice you get so numb; you lose faith in your powers to communicate.

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.