Life is not a submarine.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

Purity of heart is what enables us to see.

There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud.

The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

This generation must know that the total truthfulness of the bible is under continual assault.

You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.