We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.

I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have the most power. Those are the ones that have the most strength when you give them as a testimony.

I'm just as unhappy about San Antonio as I was about Chicago. If you're unhappy about certain things, you're unhappy everywhere.

I usually meditate and I call my spirit allies - anyone in the spirit world that I've got connections with. Even in the spirit world you need connections!

You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.