I'm a poet who can whine in meter

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Accept no limitations and you'll have no limitations.

Determination could easily become obsession.

When I lie down I say When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.

And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.

In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.

Adversity is a stimulus.

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing.