All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.

Never judge a person until you've walked a mile in their busted up shoes and haven't had any money for medication for two weeks.

I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.

I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that's just fine with me

It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book.

It's okay to be crazy as long as you keep writing and are happy.

Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.

Can I possibly be a good writer if I'm not healed form the story I'm telling? Will I be able to go deep enough if people find out the truth?

I'm really just playing when I write. I feel like I'm a kid again. I want my characters to do and say things like when I played with dolls!

I had a very funny and depressing talk with my seventy-four-year-old mother. I decided, she doesn't have a bucket list - she has a kick-the-bucket list.

Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are.

At the time we glorify self instead of glorify God, at that time we are wasting our time as... God is Time.

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

She turned his hand over, tracing letters into his palm. I…L.O.V.E…Y.O.U…

The purest definition of “religious” is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality.

In hatred as in love we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe we graft into our very soul.

For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.

Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.