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

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.

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.

I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to see.Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth.

Loving yourself comes first from there everything else falls into place

The world says fit in

Be yourself! Now that would be different!

Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself

Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.