And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world..

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens..

Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and ….

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly..

It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half..

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music..

The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls….

Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person w….

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and followi….

You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that….

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken..

The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You ha….

Language can do what it can’t say..

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, ….

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there..

Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way in….

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have ….

I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again..

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why..

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean..