Be lovely and do no harm.

The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.