...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?

I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather, I see writing as a job of experiment. It's like any discovery job; you don't know what's going to happen until you try it.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.