We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.

Our names were made for us in another century.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?