I don't even hate books anymore.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

And in the ocean I will fly to the bottomless pit of darkness

Every woman is as bitter as gall. But she has two good moments: one in bed, the other at her death.

His problem is that he doesn’t want anyone until he can have anyone he wants.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

The best way to lose weight is to know that you are light.

If you allow yourself to deepen with midlife, your experience of everything deepens, including your experience of God.

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.

Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.