The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.

You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.

You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.

Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.