When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside them. The breakfast smell struck me like that.

All the faces on the photographs have changed, To not confuse it all, the names remain the same

Faith sees the invisible believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible.

I like to mix up my workouts to keep them fun and interesting. It makes getting to the gym a lot easier!

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers.

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.