That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

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

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

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

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

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

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.