Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

There are many doors to a house. You've got to try every one.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.