The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.

The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.