Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!

We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

. . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .