I think my life is tremendously interesting, and surely, other people do too.

If you teach three university courses a day, you need something to turn your mind off.

What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.

I like to walk around my neighborhood, late in the afternoon. I sometimes wind up at the wonderful, old Shell station that's been changed into a coffee shop. Right where Johnny used to change my oil, I have a latte and take out my little book bag. It doesn't sound very austere.

It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.

There's some sort of exchange that goes on between human beings that is one of the highest things we do.

I think my life is tremendously interesting, and surely, other people do too.