Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the world, but it is themselves they portray. The world of which they write is like a mirror that reflects the inside of their hearts, often more truly than they know.

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

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

What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.