I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.

the material world and the flesh are only temporary - there are no sins of the flesh, spirit is everything!

The only way to get change is not through the courts or - heaven forbid - the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts - music, poetry, dance, painting, writing - "can we really reach each other.

What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.