But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Art is not in some far-off place.

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Next time I will ...""From now on I will ..."- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over he would have put diamonds on the floor.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

I wouldn't give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.

More like a chocolate molten lava cake. A dessert so sinful, so luscious, so filled with inner heat it made a girl want to lick each and every crumb right off the plate. That was Jack Pallas.

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.

There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.