As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.

Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends.

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Love is the greatest medicine. I ask to be healing medicine for others. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and to love others as they wish to be loved. I ask my heart to expand its boundaries and open to my being loved as I wish to be loved.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.