Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.

I'll be Pavlov, you be the dog.

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.

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.

Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.