Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you’d like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.

Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.

Dialogue helps us to acknowledge that we see the world not as it is, but as we are.

When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).

Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.

We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.

Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.

Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.

Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.

In the desert, the only god is a well.

The mother of goodwill is freewill, if untainted by evil.

The world's only lessons are tension and fear — relax into yourself.

I've got 911 on speed dial.

I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television.

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

Memory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.

If someone you know is diagnosed with cancer, give them a call or send them a letter to tell them how sorry you are and to let them know how much you care.

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.