I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

It is not important what would you do for your love, what matters is what have you been doing for it.

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.

Look at the world as a reflection of your inner state.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.

Then the Warrior of the Light thanks his traveling companions, takes a deep breath and continues on, laden with memories of an unforgettable journey.

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.