Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Eat beautiful foods, which are nutritionally dense, wholesome and natural.

Has anyone done research on herbs, trees and vegetation referred to in the Bible? Share your thoughts.

I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished.

I'm crap and a fatty.

After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED