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.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.