After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, 'Maybe life isn't or everyone.

One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and hurried to appreciate them.

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

There’s no better way to serve and nourish the magnificence in another person than to simply listen to them openheartedly and without judgment.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.

You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

You can't settle a 50-year conflict in 52 weeks.

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.