The hands are churches that worship the world.

I want to be someone making music/with my coming.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.