... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

... people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed.