For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.

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The noise of the trees, the breaking of moon into silver fish bouncing off the leaves of asters outside.

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Maybe this is the way to come out of a war, he thinks. A burned man to care for, some sheets to wash in a fountain, a room painted like a garden.

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The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.

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Every river they came to was bridge-less, as if its name had been erased, as if the sky were starless, homes doorless.

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As we left they told us the old joke. "To start a journey in a sandstorm is good luck.

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In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

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Give me a map and I'll build you a city.

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... in Asian gardens you could look at rock and imagine water, you could gaze at a still pool and believe it had the hardness of rock.

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He had been slowing down, the way one, half asleep, continually rereads the same paragraph trying to find a connection between sentences.

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