Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.- Susan Taylor--Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.