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.

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.

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn’t take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know.

When you get in a snit, don't hit

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

One can't tear up the darkness with a slap but bringing the light. Neither the error gets undone by fighting It hand-to-hand, but spreading the truth, without attacking the error.