The ego's blocking the light from coming.

I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

San Antonio drives me crazy, but Chicago drives me crazy in a different way.

I've been on television saying, "¡Vamos a la biblioteca!". That was great. Nobody had ever asked me.

Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the Nonviolent Communication Organization. He has all these books about how we can use our language nonviolently to help create peace. He's using a lot of Buddhism too, but he's helping me to think about language.