I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.

I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks are moving on to their South American wintering grounds.

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.

Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.