30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.

Consider bonsaiThere but for constricting bowlWould be a giant.

Successful people consistently put their best "self" forward.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.

The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.