Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to see.Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth.

Start each day as a great adventure.

Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.

That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

Food for the ego is poison for the soul.

It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals.

It's the noisiest thing I've ever experienced.

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.