"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."
"Laughter is carbonated holiness."
"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 truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of."
"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless."
"Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining."
"Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."