No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.
We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.