Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.

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.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.