The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.

They [Percy and Annabeth] held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant sacrificed their lives for their escape.

If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.

Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love.

I've always been obsessed by beef jerky.

My mom used to send me articles about how older virgins are considered good luck in Mexico.

I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.