A writer must say yes to life.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

The path is undefined. You have to define and walk in your own path.

Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning?

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking you can't buy friendships.

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

she's the only thing that's made my life worth living and if that's all I get, a few months with her- a few days, it's more than I've ever hoped for (Luke)

Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.