Figuring

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

A cross-disciplinary curiosity is vital for originality in any field of creative endeavor.

it is perhaps unreasonable to expect a person to be singular in their gifts and graces alone, and not to be equally unlike people in other matters.

cessation is the ultimate nature of all things, and that any dynamism, wherever in time it may fall, however briefly, is cause for celebration.

Why do we seek narratives that move from less to more rather than from more to less, if the sum total is the same?

meaning is not what we find, but what we create with the lives we live

In the act of living, you come to dream different dreams, value different values, love different loves.

To be a revolutionary is to be in possession of an imagination capable of leaping across the frontier of the familiar to envision a new order in which what is gained eclipses the ill-serving comforts of what is lost.