“I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and Ill be free.”

“In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.”

“Although you can not hear my thoughts, Sam, I imagine Im talking to you. Prayers to the brother who abandoned me. The day after you left Labrador, my honey started flowing. Is my body weeping for y...”

“As a man Id been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.”

“Sam believes now that people repeatedly collide with each other swiftly, brutally not to produce children but to shatter their sense of self, and be thrust into a creative space beyond reason, whe...”

“Again Sams genitals became rock, and this astonished him as much as anything. Through Franz, he was becoming the stone Earth; the final border separating him from the planet was disappearing. And t...”

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”