People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

A careful first draft is a failed first draft

Today is the best day to begin your life again and plan the rest of your life.

Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

I'm definitely not trying to be, or am, a poster child for anything so structured. But I do have my own personal faith most definitely.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

Morituri non cognant, perhaps. Those who are about to die — just don't know.

The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.