I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.

We don't choose what's going to wake us up.

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

It's not gender-specific, but I do think it's women who tend to start having that sort of little whispering voice of "I want more here" and "I want more for my family."

I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.