Morning always comes.

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.

Kissing, said Lesley, ought really to be taught as a school subject, preferably instead of religious studies, which nobody needed.

When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.

You have to go with your instincts.

I've always had a strange fear of spoons.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.

I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.

Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!