“Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight,when I come backwe will go out together,we will walk out together among,the ten thousand things,each scratched too late with such knowledge, the ...”

“Let our scars fall in love.”

“When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesntknow which way any of them will go.”

“The budstands for all things,even for those things that dont flower,for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessaryto reteach a thing its loveliness,to put a...”

“That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.”

“When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn’tknow which way any of them will go.”

“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”

“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”

“If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the ...”