I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.

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.

I don't believe that the course of anyone's lifetime has ever been as unerring as that of the rising and setting sun, but I know many lives that have been just as inspiring.

Racism is a disease of white people

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

You're nothing if you're not special.

I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, in the band, I would say.

Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat.

Jean Grey, the Phoenix... she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.

I'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.