Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

I feel like all this stuff that we make: books and art and music, all of it. There's this energy that circles the world that wants to be made manifest, and it is just looking for someone to come through. And it's dying for you to make it. And if you don't do it, it will go find somebody else.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies