Eighty percent of language lies to us.

To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one's experience.

Stories move in circle. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And part of the finding is the getting lost. And when you’re lost you start to look around and to listen.

Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.

The gods come to us in the forms we recognize.

I'll tell you how to get up in the morning......watch for the dawn.

It's what we do for each other that heals.