Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

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

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

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.

Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?

You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.