Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same, there's a real lightheartednes s about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.

I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.