My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.

The abundance of small things, it'll bury you.

Feel it, deal with it, then throw it away

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

Golf is my boyfriend right now.

I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.