I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

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.

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.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.

When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.