Read books. They are good for us.

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 find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

If I were born a woman, my clothes would be for any man with rough hands to tear down and my body to be made love to by any heart lost enough to love

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

I never think of the completed film, rather the adventure of what I'm about to live.

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

The Word of God tells us of the day when tears shall be gone forever. Until we come to that day, we move through this world in the midst of tears.

Programmatic is a great thing. Let's be clear there's a zillion websites. It's extremely difficult to address messages.

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.