We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.

If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.