Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers.

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

We make art out of our loss.

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.

A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.

How can things get done if you behave like what you despise.

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

I didn't want to do something that was easy for me.

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go.

Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website.