“Inspiration is God making contact with itself.”
“The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.”
“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.”
“In its complexity and sensuality, nature invites exploration, direct contact, and experience. But it also inspires a sense of awe, a glimpse of what is still "un-Googleable" . . . life's mystery and magnitude.”
“Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.”