“ I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet. Philip Schultz
“ There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't wr… Philip Schultz
“ I not only couldn't read but often couldn't hear or understand what was being said to me - by the time I'd processed the beginning of a sentence, the teacher was well on her way through a second or th… Philip Schultz
“ As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to. Philip Schultz
“ Not one of the three black deaf-mutes who come here every day owns a dog. They sit under the fragrant decay of the big mossy oak speaking with their eyes and hands. They love dogs so much they vibrate… Philip Schultz
“ .... Blesstheir believing happiness will make them happy;that the ocean is magical, a kingdomwhere we go to be human, and grateful. Philip Schultz
“ I could take a walk with my wife and try to explain the ghosts I can't stop speaking to. Or I could read all those books piling upabout the beginning of the end of understanding...Meanwhile, it's such… Philip Schultz
“ When I was last in Paris I was dirt poor, hiding from the Vietnam War. One night, in an old church, I considered taking my life. I didn't know how to be so young and not belong anywhere, stuck among s… Philip Schultz
“ Am I the I she tried to save, still lopsided with trying to be a little less or more, escaping who I was a minute ago? Philip Schultz
