I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

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'm an urban New Yorker to the last molecule.

Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything.

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.

The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

Expressing yourself when he takes for granted doesn't work.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.