I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

You may be a lady but you are still the man!