Zen is the vehicle of reality.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.