Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

‪You would not be able to manage millions of dollars well when you are not managing thousands of dollars ‬well

Need from destiny change with time.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.

Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.

It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.

Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.

People who believe I'm an idiot don't hire me and they don't call.