Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

Routine kills creative thought.

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

There's a mess inside you: You clean the outside.

The point is to be involved in the moment.

If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.

I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.