When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

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.

. . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their nameswritten across the sky as ogham threads are tracedbetween the stars

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like.

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

Grief can choke you. It’s dangerous, something else you have to beat.

[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.

I love all of the Earth.

You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.