The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

Everything we do has consequences.