Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

We are the stories we tell ourselves

Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.

Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.

I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it, to look at it, to witness it. Try and get it. Seize the moment.