I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.

I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young.

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.