I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.

The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom

She had been proved right so eloquently, she had thought, that comments were unnecessary.

Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.

I really don't care what people think of me.

Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!

Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley

So often we don't give from our abundance. We give from what we have no use for. I have learned that God not only looks at what we give but also at what we keep.

People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

Remember that when you truly want something, the entire Universe conspires to make it happen.