Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

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.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

When you break something, you´re not just breaking the thing, you´re like hurting everyone who made it was.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

The flowers are ravined by bees, the fruit blossoms are thrown to the ground, the wind the rain forces everything.

Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.

There isn’t anything I have to be afraid of, love is the answer.

I don't think my stylist would let me bedazzle my splint.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

Art is an investigation.