“Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”
“If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.”
“The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.”
“Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth.”
“Trickster, love will be the end of you.”