The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.