Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.

I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.

The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.

Are you living just a little and calling that life?

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.