I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

Killing time is not an easy job.

Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster

Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.