If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

Its not the content nor context, rather, its the character that masses heed to.

You cannot even touch my soul. So I have emerged stronger, Kinder, perceptive, forgiving To embrace you with all the humility.

Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.

I see a pair of shoes I adore, and it doesn't matter if they have them in my size. I buy them anyway.

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

There was not a single Islamic slogan [in Egypt]. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want to divide the revolution, and religion is a very strong weapon.

You have witchcraft in your lips