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

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

"I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted."

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

For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.

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 saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea