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

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.

The problem is we think we exist.

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.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.