Health and happiness are the two most precious and elusive of human conditions. At their core, they are one and the same. Both are a function of balance.

Meditators dream of attaining the single-pointed focus that young children experience naturally when they play. Spiritual aspirants long for the rapture that defines moments of pure delight.

When we 'lose ourselves' in play, we find something greater--the nameless, formless, and mysterious essence of all creation.

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

If Yo Mama and Yo Daddy got a divorce, they'd still be brother and sister.

Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.