My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.