The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness.

Look at your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.

Rita Mae Brown

…she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn’t know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind… She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the grey dust of its making.

Zora Neale Hurston

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

Tuli Kupferberg

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

You don’t have to prove anything, my mother said. Just be ready for what God sends.

William Stafford

written on the morning of his death, August 28, 1993