Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.

Are you living just a little and calling that life?

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.

No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and the wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.