Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.

The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.

Are you living just a little and calling that life?

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.