Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

TO BE is life's dilemma while facing the eternity of death.

I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

You have to remain cool under fire and let criticism roll off you. Good leaders handle conflict easily and bad ones are eaten up by it.

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

I just don't lose weight easily.

Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.