I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.

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.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

The scripture talks about man managing, ruling the earth, as the sole duty of man.

Things work out if you have enough faith.

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

If it's going to really make them happy for me to do it, I'll do Walken. I've got no problem with it at all.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

Just keep doing 'you', and being who you are and doing what feels natural to you.