All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.

To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.