I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.