Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.

When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I’m here. Help. Please find me.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

When I saw the rough cuts of ‘The Village of Peace,’ I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage.

We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.

I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

Hustle makes up for many a mistake.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.