Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"-- and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: "Maybe I'm a king.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person who follows with trust and forgiveness what occurs to him, the world remains always ready and deep, an inexhaustible environment, with the combined vividness of an actuality and flexibility of a dream. Working back and forth between experience and thought, writers have more than space and time can offer. They have the whole unexplored realm of human vision.

I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.