I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.

There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. NEVER TO LIE TO YOURSELF.

No matter how long you behest, to the fruit draped tree. It will do you no best, until a shingle you free.

Writers leave a trail of magic everywhere they go.

If someone is angry with you, it has a reason. To know just put yourself in the same condition and at the place of that one and talk the same arguments

The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.