If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.

Touch magic. Pass it on.

You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.