Focus and simplicity. . . once you get there, you can move mountains.
In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.
My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.
Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.
Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.
For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.