Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

All art is knowing when to stop.

Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.