You need to find people who laugh gently at themselves, who remind you gently to lighten up.
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.
Who knows how much of our stories are true?
While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writers, who tend to be shy, get to sta...
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with,...
When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God God: Because when you see something so great, you just go, 'God!
What you're looking for is already inside you..You can't buy it, lease it, rent it, date it, or apply for it. The best job in the world can't give it to you. Neither can success, or fame, or financial...
What seems true is that something in life, on the highways or in our hearts, is always being installed, or being repaired, or being torn down for the next installation.
What a mess we are, I thought. But this is usually where any hope of improvement begins, acknowledging the mess. When I am well, I know not to mess with mess right away; I try to let silence and time...
We’re individuals in time and space who are often gravely lost, and then miraculously, in art, found.
We, too, are shadow and light. We are not supposed to know this, or be all these different facets of humanity, bright and dark. We are raised to be bright and shiny, but there is meaning in the accept...
We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the...
We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.
Usually with life, you start wherever you are, and you flail around for a while
Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
Those plates would be filled with love, pride, and connection. That care is what we have longed for our whole lives, and what we create when we are kinder to our bodies and our hungry souls.
They taught me to pay attention, but not so much attention to my tiny princess mind.
These lines of D.H. Lawrence are taped to the wall of my office: What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strang...
There really is only today, although luckily that is also the eternal now.
The search for meaning will fill you with a sense of meaning. Otherwise