Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

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.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

To help people, love them. Then, they help themselves.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Most people don't need to be taught, they need only to be reminded

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

Dark money has turned our elections into auctions

I've always been a missionary and what people don't know is that I've always taken some strategic and eyebrow-raising steps.

The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.