My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

Dance in the fullness of time.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.