Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

On a good day I write, all day.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me?

I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.

We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.

I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

We are all part and parcel of one country. And that country is of love.

To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

I'm sure that when my daughter will bring home her first boyfriend I'll? be so intimidating that he'll run away, but embarrassing as well, just to have a bit of fun.