Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

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.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

Livvy and me together in an elevator for four hours..and we're good. To some eyes the fact that we're both alive could be viewed as a minor miracle.

God’s intention is that everything that has breath would praise him

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.

The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.

Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.

I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune.