It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.

if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.

The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.

Your feelings are none of your business.