I've got the world on a string, sittin' on a rainbow, got the string around my finger.

Forget your troubles and just get happy.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Let attitude be Your determination, go for success and not for money, because success is money

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.

I kept telling myself this word, process. Focus on my process, don't care about the result.

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.