...and though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say.

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.

The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God.

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently, regardless of what it looks like to others.

The truth be told, Lord, I don't like you very much right now.

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.

The enemy understands a free Iraq will be a major defeat in their ideology of hatred. That's why they're fighting so vociferously.

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.