Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life

Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of our lifeforce, and then we go on carrying that person in our body, not unlike springtime when certain plants in fields we walk through attach their seeds in the form of small burrs to our socks, our pants, our caps, as if to say, 'Go on, take us with you, carry us to root in another place.' This is how we survive long after we are dead. This is why it is important who we become, because we pass it on.

Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.

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

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 don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.