I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

it's like a squid in love with the sky.

The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

I can't tell you how irritating it is to be an atheist in a haunted house.

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

Fear is nothing but a thought. So try not to become its victim. You were born to be the captain of your own thoughts.

Yoga teaches more than postures

We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.

The shushumna is the tube that the kundalini passes up in the subtle body, and on one side is the ida and the other side is the pingala.

The banjo am the instrument for me.

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

What would I do if I wasn't afraid?

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.