I became very aware of how important it is to connect with children - possibly for the children, if they're in the mood for that - but certainly for the adults.

My ambition was to live like music.

Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to be civil.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

Fame is vanity's bait.

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me.

I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of "Lord of the Flies."