All eternity is in the moment.

Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.

GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.

I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.