The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.

Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.

Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.