I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear.

There can’t be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don’t change they just die.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again.

For hours she lay on the ground, alternately body and space. Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality:.

I’m so proud that my offspring became a musician. I’m full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

But the men – hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil – had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home.

Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don’t sleep like eyes... Sometimes ocean people are given to understand the newness and oldness of the world; then all morning they try to keep that boundless joy like a little sun inside their chests. The ocean also makes its people know immensity.

There’s something in life that’s a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.