Good writing is about telling the truth.

When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.

Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.

You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.