Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean is--I never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age.

meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.