As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

The truth is in the present moment.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I was looking for, and continue to, is a way to have this exist within a regular, normal, modern life.

Courage is more important than confidence

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.