So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.

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.

The highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God. . . . God only desires that our soul cling to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness.

I make clothes, women make fashion.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

I love your name. I love the sound of it

It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

If you believe in yourself anything is possible.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.