Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

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

When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around and say, Wow, there's that same mockingbird; there's that woman in the red hat again. The woman in the red hat is about hope because she's in it up to her neck, too, yet every day she puts on that crazy red hat and walks to town.

If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.

You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.