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

Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

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

Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing