I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

When we’re all living in the space of the inner child, loving, honoring, respecting, and embracing its desires, we are at peace.

Naysayers are frightened of their own power.

Josie, like Gretchen, isn't afraid of blood. What woman would be?

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

If you didn't have someone to hate, you wouldn't know what to do with yourself, would you?

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

I wish we could be decent to each other.