What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

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

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.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

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

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

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

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

Today—be the white clouds full of dreams and hopes in someone’s sky.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

If you do not step forward you will always remain where you are.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

We are children of the Earth...respect your mother.

Any dream is possible, if you have courage.