Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

True freedom comes from being unknown.

Life is about family and technology.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat." -pg.170-

I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.

All I wanted to be was a player.

Autism is not a snapshot. It's a life.

Life is nothing but a memory. People who dwell on the bad ones aren't going to have a whole lot of good ones coming up.

Are you two having some sort of strange human thing that you can’t follow what I’m saying? (Simi)