Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

I want them to see the magic of how everything is related: To walk out into the night and see the Green Corn Moon levitate across the sky.

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.

Find peace in where and what you are.

Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning.

Having just had a baby, I'm not going to be thinking about my arse.

So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

Herbalism is a religion of nature, representing a balance of head and heart.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.