Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.

Fiction is very, very important, " he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and other lives through stories. Made-up stories. Fiction.

If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.

Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious.

I think my mom gets weirded out, sometimes, by people knowing so much about me or people always asking questions.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

Life is a journey through a foreign land.

Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.

Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.

I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.