When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down….

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avaric….

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to l….

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves..

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human l….

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay ali….

We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of go….

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive..

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it..

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with ….