I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair.

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.

Creativity is the opposite of TV

How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

There's no deodorant for desperation.