I listen to the Beatles all the time - in my car, at the gym. The Beatles are still part of my life. And because of that, John Lennon - in life and in death - remains part of my life.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.

I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it.

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper.

All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the best, most entertaining article that you can.

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.

No one controls who we turn into but us.

Oh, so you see some chick in baggy jeans and a hoodie, and you just have to have her so bad, you decide to repeat high school, just to get her?" "Sounds about right." He laughs.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change.

Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.