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.

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.

This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.

We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

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

As writers we need to crack open language.