Before I undertake a lengthy project, I have usually given much thought to it over a period of years. My files are filled with likely subjects - which perhaps, one day, I will develop.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know.

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.

I wasn't a wrestling fan growing up; I knew who Hulk Hogan was and stuff but I didn't watch it. I started watching wrestling about three years before I got involved with WCW.

Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.