... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.