Writing is the act of discovery.

Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

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

In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people -- people who supposedly want to write -- read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them.

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