The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.