if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.

Laughter is the key that grace has arrived.

If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.