Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.

We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.

The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea in her eyesss.(from uncorrected galley)

You don't drown because you can't breathe. You drown because you try to breathe what is not breathable.

On one of the right-side-up pages show wrote, with some difficulty, Know what roots know: there is only one tree.

And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you.

Seeing is 'making, ' whether you see with your mind or your true self. Try to see with your self, your self and your beast together, and not your busy, frightened mind.

We never really know what might me beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do

The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.

She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.

Timeless wisdom brings timeless blessings.

The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.

There are no short cuts to Heaven only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

All of nature is God's art.

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

Stop the nurse like the monkey.

My fans are like my glasses. Without them I'd be blurry.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.