And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.

A dog is adorable and noble, a dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall— what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do.

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.