There is no mystery greater than our own mystery.

I always forget how important the empty days are,

I don’t like hopeless books.

I don't have to tell you, one never snaps one's fingers on the beat.

I promise to see you with new eyes each day

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance

I would write ads …

“If you want to be happy, be.”      That line by the great Tolstoy intrigues me. It intrigues me, especially for all it doesn’t say.

Every artist joins a conversation

The natural warmth that emerges when we experience pain

Careful writers can tinker forever

A title is of practical use to an author.

As a young man, I was often told that I was a daydreamer

A Book is like a garden

“Do you ever get writer’s block?”

I can’t count the number of times I heard that question, mostly when standing before of a gym full of wiggly elementary students. 

I don’t have a contract …

simply to be here is so much and because what is here seems to need us,

There is only one thing to do.  Go into yourself.