I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

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.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

To become a pious saint, experience first as as a ruthless killer.

I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.

If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.

There is also a kind of mean-spiritedness with LA comics.

If I'm going to pour that kind of love and energy and sweat and heartache, all that juju into something, I'm going to lean into my own projects before someone else's.

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.

The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

The left, if you get them honest, will admit they know they're a minority.