A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The assumption is that one or the other choice is the right move. No. Almost everything we say or think or do - or write - comes in that spacious human area bounded by something this side of the sublime and something above the unforgivable.

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

If you can say it, it begins to exist.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

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