I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.

The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.

All eternity is in the moment.

If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.

Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.