I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.

The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was done with cancer that I wrote a book about it.

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.