There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

The hardest part is when you're in danger yourself. You have to face what could happen and might be likely to happen to you. It's not just that you're there standing next to somebody that something bad is likely to happen to. That is a true moment of reckoning with who you really are.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.