We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

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.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.