Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

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.

Success requires preparation and persistence effort.

Passion is the very fuel of inspiration.

The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.

The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.

I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids.

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life