I have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around." The publishing world is a business, but it's not any big deal. An editor is not your guru. Your agent is not your guru.

Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think.

All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974.

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.