All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.

You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.