I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.

I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.

The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?

Standing beside you, I took an oathto make your life simpler by complicating mineand what I always thought would happen did:I was lifted up in joy.

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.

Let me be one of the people who writes their life history, not with ink, with the colors of a caring heart.

How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.

Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.

When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.

My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.

Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.

I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon.

When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.