You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

Swimming always cleans your soul

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Laughter is a very underrated tool for healing.

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

To play with Zinedine Zidane was the biggest honour I have had in my career...

We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.