All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.