I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.

If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.