Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

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.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald with a baldness full of grandeur.

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.

If I get married again, I'm just going to buy the woman a house and break up with her, because that will be the end result anyway.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.