When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

The reward for attention is always healing.

Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.