We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

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

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

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

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

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