you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

There's nothing special about your fear.

There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.