What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.

When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.

When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer.

Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.

Each situation is a blossom to be picked with a curious spirit.

...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.

I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

I need my trusty Mac laptop to write. I can't work with anything else. I'm used to the feel of the keys. I also like, more than anything else, Apple's Pages.

Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.