One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

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.

I cannot live without books.

To a materialist life is nothing but a complex self-sustaining pattern, easily disrupted and gone when destroyed.

I love sports - I used to play volleyball really competitively...I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers, and I've ridden horses my whole life.

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.

Art is a jealous mistress.

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.