I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

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.

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

Better slip with foot than tongue.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

I fear no man, no woman; flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.

Does love still exist if you can’t say it? If you can’t admit it?

When you use sleep mask, no one's gonna recognize you. You're gonna look like an idiot, but it's so worth it.

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.