Look back on your life and find something small that made a big difference.

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.

You could never understand why I grind like I doMakiyah & Jalani why I grind like I do

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is.

One who brandishes a pistol must be prepared to shoot.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.