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

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.

If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.