The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.

Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.

I do get a lot of requests for specific things.

Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own.

To be happy with your woman, make her emotional, but never become emotional!

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.

I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction.

I have the skills to pay the bills; you know, I can really sing, and write great songs.

It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.