Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

The Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the very instrument you're writing on is already tainted by the world out there in all its permutations.

Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.

All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.

It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.

I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes when people interrupt themselves in the middle of some story they're telling me to say, "You know you can't write about this."