A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of all that could be done, you choose one thing. What that one thing is, nothing else can tell you--you come at it over unmarked snow.

And the things you know before you hear them; these are you and the reason you are in the world.

They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"-- and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: "Maybe I'm a king.