Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.

Grief is the price of victory.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

Money to a writer is time to write.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.