Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.

Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I’m here. Help. Please find me.

...Death, " she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place.

But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain.

Everyone complains of his lack of memory but nobody of his want of judgement.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.