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.

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

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

Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.