Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.

Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear.

It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none.

Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?

True, life is complex. But so are a great many accidents.

Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?

Sometimes life gives you a little punch in the stomach... You just gotta catch your breath and keep going.

I was told to be accurate be brief and then be seated. ... So I promise I shall be brief as possible - no matter how long it takes me.

Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.

Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.