Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.