We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.

Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression - to speak, to say who you are.

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 had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

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.

Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

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.