I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories