I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

…because he was far more interested in allowing his disciples to cultivate a relationship and trust with and in him than leading them to a place of "arrival".

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...