All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.

Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing?

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

History works itself out in the living.