I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer.

I've never finished anything by Dickens.

Lots of people hate my stuff.

I'm a very secretive person.

I've never scared anybody in my life.

The dead leaves fly. They’re cropped and gathered to the rich barn of the earth.

It was their creed that devils had no place on earth, that evil was not a living creature in the world. There was no one to blame other than oneself.

We only meet the God within our true selves through suffering. We seek the wilderness because in this solitude we can hear ourselves more clearly.

There’s solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.

There is no remedy for death – or birth – except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.