If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.

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.

Since when, " he asked, "Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends?

I now can say I no longer fear death. Instead welcome it with open arms…

We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

Im very excited to work with everybody on The Bridge - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. Im very lucky to be a part of it.

I think he’s handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box.

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.