It feels a long way up and down from zero.

In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.

Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.

... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.