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

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.