Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.

Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.

I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.

If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

... All that we may ever hope to establish in historical research are facts and conditions but never causes.