While I was in India, my yoga teacher asked me to start teaching, and my life became about that for years. I taught 18 classes a week, therapeutics, and traveled to study with other teachers.

Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

You are freaking me out!" she said with a nervous laugh. "Who are you, and what have you done with Quinn Shaughnessy?

what was there when nothing began, what will be there when everything ends?

How young can you die of old age?

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes.

If it felt good, you didn't push hard enough. It's supposed to hurt like hell.

For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.

I have to reach "the poetry condition" to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased or disappeared or dead.

Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.