There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

When are you going to marry her? “As soon as I can find a preacher willing to perform a ceremony with a handcuffed and gagged bride, ” Zach replied grimly.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday.

everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.