We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.