A book comes and says, 'Write me.

Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

To be alive is to be vulnerable.