we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

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

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.