The secret is to start a story near the ending.

I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.

Before you give up, let the hope shine again.

You can change the world at this moment for better by changing your thoughts and by spreading your love for the world and humanity as a whole.

Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home.

There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.

My 12 years in New York were very, very special, the fans were very special, and it's something I will take with me wherever I go and into retirement.

I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music.