I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.

But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they fly and their huge wings alternately gliding and flapping as they maneuver through the trees. Athena's owl of wisdom and Merlin's companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind.

Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.

I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.

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

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.