Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust that. When you were screaming on the page. Maybe that doesn't make a whole book but that is the true seed.

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

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

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.