Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

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 heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.

Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.

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

You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.