Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.

At night I dream of things I scoff at by day.

...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

I don' really care what people think. I don't really have to prove anything to anybody. I just have to prove stuff to my teammates.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.