I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.