For me, personally, it is very important that the days are exactly the same, so I have routines. I do the same thing every day.

As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.

Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.

As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.

Accepting and appreciating heart brings abundance in life but gratitude acknowledge and dance with joy of receiving.

I trust the Universe Implicitly, therefore my experience is happening FOR me and not TO me. I trust the Universe. I trust the process.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

I'm never a believer in going back in anything. You move forward, so that's my whole mentality, you make moves to go forward not back.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother

You can never go too far wrong by thinking like a customer who’s new to the business.

Things use to be real nice, til they got out of hand. Since they moved in, they call themselves the Taliban.

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.