I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

I believe in angels, so it's simple.

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one’s own limitations.

i Create. I don't "Need".Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism. Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks.

I rather enjoy being contradicted. It forces me to think harder.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet armed force in the background

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.

I feel like one of God's chosen people, having had the opportunity to share, with many fine companions, these varied and lovely realms of our natural world.

And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.

In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.

It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.