If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well.

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?

Love sparkles within the shimmering jewel that is your heart.

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others

Every time you build a golf course, it’s not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise.

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.

As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate.