I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell.

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 world is full of mystery but it must not be choked with secrets: we must talk to one another.

Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of personal experience, of consciousness itself. That includes a story, but also the whole expanding universe of sensation and thought ... Memoirists wish to tell their mind. Not their story.

It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see.

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.