Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.

meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.