If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.

People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.

Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.

I usually feel something before I know it.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.

Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way.

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

Awareness is the starting place for all changes in life

In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

CinderHeart: You’re the one that changed every thing. LoinBlaze: No. This was all decided before I was born.

Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.

The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.