“Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the...” — Sue Monk Kidd Quote

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

I'm actually shy and my salvation is coming home and being normal.

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

I know that nobody will be satisfied with anything less than coming home with the World Cup.

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer.