Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.

Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way.

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.

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

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

Writing is the act of discovery.

Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are, you hardly need anything else.