When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

. . . Mrs. Arcanum considered foreign parts only marginally less unspeakable than private parts. . .

We are weak Christians simply because we have refused to be bondservants of Christ

...curiosity had the same impact on him as caffeine... (Commissario Soneri)

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.

Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.

There is no room for play in Islam... It is deadly serious about everything.