I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

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

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.

A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them ... A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing. . .

Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.

My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.