Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light

Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

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 was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.