Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

I learned years ago that love could be temporary and still be love.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?

Purify your heart with prayer.

If you want to find your passion, follow your daydreams.

When you see something impossible, this is often because you have a limited imagination!

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

He that steals an egg will steal an ox.

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be the way I made my living, because the form was dying commercially.