You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.

Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.

It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.

Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?

I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward

Forgiveness is the path to healing.

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.