You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

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.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.

It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that's all you have.

My sisters were in that van.

It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him.

Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.