There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?

It's not a competition, it's a doorway.

Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving

Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Things take the time they take. Don't worry.