Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other.

The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry.

Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to.

Water was liquid silver, water was gold. It was clarity—a sacred thing. Drinking was no longer something to take for granted. I’d never needed to consider water before.

There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes

The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.

I’d believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others—but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either.

I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.

I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it.

I was the director of my life, it was already true, and I would soon lead myself to my dreamed-of destinations.It was the task of my one thousand miles of solitude.

I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.

For every success, there is a system

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night

The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.

If you want something, go get it. Period.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times.

I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.

FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy...Double The Victory.

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too!

All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.