Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.

If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath

It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that my work regenerates the people, certainly Indian people, and the earth and the sun. And in that way we all continue forever.