Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.

For some things there are no wrong seasons. Which is what I dream of for me.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

There is only one question: / how to love this world.