We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.

Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft (ed. Open Road Media, 2011) - ISBN: 9781453224571