The journey is about coming home....There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail." (p. 220, 222)

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found.

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.

What do dreams know of boundaries?

I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued.

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.

I don't shoot many corporate or commercial jobs, but when you do, you had better have someone helping who has done it before.