Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.