I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life.
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.
Because poets feel what we’re afraid to feel, venture where we’re reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.
Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
A kiss is like singing into someone’s mouth.
Like love, travel makes you innocent again.
Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn’t room for anxiety, distress or anything else.
Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.
We can’t enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention.
If we mammals don’t get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it’s not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I’m just amazed we don’t pace and fret about it all the time.
In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, ‘Want to do some chocolate?’
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.
Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.
Don’t just live the length of your life – live the width of it as well.
When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else’s heart.
The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.
For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?
To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.