Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.

God will give me the place where I don't know, but I want to go to heaven because there is my friends are waiting for me.

Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, the co-author of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli immigration reform bill, has said the failure of that bill was a function of the lack of an ID card system.

On the world stage, Donald Trump will lead from strength.

I was given an opportunity to join the marines instead of go to jail - and I think I made the correct decision.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment.

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction.