The award for excessive success is eternal doubt and eventual failure.""So what, it's stupid to even try?""No. It's unwise to hope."- Something Like Stardust

I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.

You've got drama too?' 'Doesn't everyone?' 'A side effect of breathing, I guess.

Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way.

I murmured because I had no shoes until I met man who had no feet.

I just write whenever I can.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

Life is not a solitary activity. Live well by living for others.