Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that's more than a barren life. It's a trivial one.

They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.