It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.

How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.

As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.

Sometimes you know before you know.

For all it's problems and difficulties, life is mostly a wonderful experience, and it is up to each person to make the most of each day. I hope you are successful in your life, but look to the heavens and the earth and especially to other people to find your real wealth. Wherever I am, wherever you go, know that my love goes with you.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was thinking, doing this, about the old ways of gratitude: Indians thanking the deer they'd slain, grace before supper, kneeling before bed. I was thinking that gratitude is too much absent in our lives now, and we need it back, even if it only takes the form of acknowledging the blue of a bowl against the red of cranberries.