I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.

If you waste water, you die.

I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.

If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.