Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.

You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.

When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.

Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.

Use your notebook to breathe in the world around you.

Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.

The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.

Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.

Springtimeand I wish I knew you

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

If testing costs more than not testing, then don't test.

Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

Don't be afraid to let your players know how much you care about them

Because we do not rest, we lose our way.