Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren’t holding any paper.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.