...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.

The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.

We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.

He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.

I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.