Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.

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.

There is no fortitude like patience, just as there is no destructive emotion worse than hatred.

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

To restore a lost relationship is your choice

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

I do not wish disaster to British arms.

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.

The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.

My favorite record I've ever done is Rock Salt and Nails. It was recorded in '68-'69 and released in '69. There's something about that record I really like.