You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself..

Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency roo….

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the tru….

I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists..

You know, we're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God -- and I be….

I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong..

When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you..

A hundred years from now? All new people..

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable.

What an incredible drug fear is..

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way..

I pray not to be such a whiny, self-obsessed baby, and give thanks that I am not quite as bad as I used to be (talk about miracles). Then something c….

I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of an….

So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a r….

There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it..

Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful….

I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the ….

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the gi….

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker..

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the….

Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out of my new used car….