All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.