In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.