I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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.

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.