Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.

Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?

Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.