Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.