We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

When I'm inside you, buried so deep I'm the only thing that exists in your world, that's when I'm not going to go slow. It's going to be fast and hard because I'm going to lose my mind.

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

O Lord help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

We are missing the gold if we do asanas as a physical practice only.

Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.

Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

Be a gift and a benediction.

They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.