For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.