Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so right in the middle of it we die lose a leg fall in love drop a jar of applesauce.

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.

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.

The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen.

Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts.

I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself.

To live, to experience the world, to communicate with a camera, all these are interrelated and cannot be separated from everyday live.

The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.