We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts 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'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to make my own life.

The fool shouts loudly thinking to impress the world.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.