Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

I don't exist without writing.

I am most alive when I let myself be touched by the fingers of life.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.