You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.
Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.
To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstandin g of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.
I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand.
Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.
What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.
We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.
I can look back. . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.
The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.
Good talkers are only found in Paris.
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.