Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Life is a disease.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

Being interested in doing undone things means you have the wish to have them done. But being powerful and filled with passion tells that you have the will to actualize them!

I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

To move forward you have to give back.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

Treat 'em like a prostitute, don't treat 'em well until your sure of the scoop.