And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.

First you must have the images, then come the words.

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.