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

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

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.

Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.

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.

'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'

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