I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought with schizophrenia, wouldn't we?

The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.

I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family being diagnosed with breast cancer, mastectomies led to one-breasted women. I believe it is the result of nuclear fallout.

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones.

Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.