Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

Silence, that inspired dealer, takes the day's deck, the life, all in a crazy heap, lays it out, and plays its flawless hand of solitaire, every card in place. Scoops them up, and does it all over again.

Here, in memory, we live and die.

Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.