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

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

[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral.

I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.”

It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with.

When you meet a new friend, the world has more light in it, doesn't it? Things become more spontaneous, and more full of laughing and freedom and novelty.

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.