So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

The ghosts that exert the most power in people’s lives-at least, the people I know–tend to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

In old days, instead of asking a teacher, people looked at the dictionary to know the complete definition of teacher. Now Google becomes our teacher and to know about Google, people Google it.

The only difference between a winner and a loser is that one second when the winner decided not to give up.

Perhaps someday, when you are a father, Prince, you will understand how empty is your heart if your child is a hollow toy that you can move where you will him to be

Meditation is the brain's way to exercise.

True love is the person you lay your eyes on that you will be with forever.

I love the polite drivers in La Jolla. At an intersection . . . most expensive car goes first.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.