I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is.

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

Every dew-drop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.

I's all about finding balance in your life.

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.

Isn't it pretty to think so.

I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.

I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.

Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.