I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was number one on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

The solution is to trust yourself, to trust each other and to trust your connection with the Source of all Love and Light. To trust God.

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.

But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

People who treat waitresses or waiters rudely - or taxi drivers - I have very little tolerance for those people. They work really hard. They deserve courtesy and respect.

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.

Things are not worth attending to, yet they have to be attended to.

A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.