Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach... One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.

we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.

All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there is never a "completely ready," there is never a really "right time." As with any descent to the unconscious, there comes a time when one simply hopes for the best, pinches one's nose, and jumps into the abyss. If this were not so, we would not have needed to create the words heroine, hero, or courage.