Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.

There's a strange thing goes on inside a bubble. It's hard to describe. People who are in it can't see outside of it, don't believe there is an outside.

Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until you have a beginning.

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.

To every whisper if you listen carefully, you will hear or fail to hear something.

I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back

If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?

The best way to learn to swim is to dive.

When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference.

Being joyful is a choice.

Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.