Anything we fully do is an alone journey.

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.

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Things aren't black and white in the world.

Liberals, communists, socialists, look at people as workers. They look at 'em as ants, worker ants, worker bees and so forth, and they just plug 'em in to do jobs that need to be done.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.