The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was done with cancer that I wrote a book about it.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.

It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

Read books. They are good for us.

Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.