You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.

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.

While it is easy to blame the hand of the abuser, when that hand no longer is raised against you, why do you continue to feel the burn of its touch?

The way to fight fear is to do what you are afraid of. And the way to fight pain is to live with it, with an open heart.

With a perseverance spirit, you withstand any situation.

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'

You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing from their constituents and others.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

I think that if people are having trouble communicating with one another, the least they can do is SHUT UP.