Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation..

Every time I see the bumper sticker that says “We think we’re humans having spiritual experiences, but we’re really spirits having human experiences,….

Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves. We’re a crowd anim….

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down..

I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath, or go buy myself a fabulous pair of socks. I believe that ….

Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting….

Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as….

Everything takes me forever. It's all lurch, flail. I hope that is good news to you writers..

Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you have to….

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal..

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you..

If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at….

If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will it break your heart if it turns….

Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it pi….

Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churc….

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better..

Write as if your parents are dead..

You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to ….

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious..

There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder..

To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass..