Don’t talk too much — your ignorance exceeds your knowledge.

Either remain quiet, or say things that improve the silence.

Enough with the irrelevant details.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both.

To me, the whole process of being a brushstroke in someone else’s painting is a little difficult.