Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

When we make time to write, we can do it anytime, anywhere.

Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.

When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified.

I've always been a little soft. I like to eat.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

My marriage has worked because I am not around much.

Until God opens the next door, praise Him in the hallway.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera.

Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.