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

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

keep your hand moving

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.

We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.

The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.