Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.

It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.

A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.