To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

keep your hand moving

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

A writer must say yes to life.

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.