You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.
It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.