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.

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this