Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.

Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.

Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.

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.