She was not a poet. She was a poem.

Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely.

She had no God to plead to for mercy or luck. It would be true to say she depended instead on human kindness and painkillers.

... to be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile...

Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.

There were at least four contexts in which San shamans acquired insights into the spiritual world: – the trance dance, – special curing rituals, – viewing rock art, and – dreams.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.

I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.

I want to be happy because it is beneficial for me but also because I want to be a messenger of happiness to my friends and family.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.