If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

The more things you own, the more they own you.

Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off the ground. You're trapped in your hotel room. It's the mystical sweat love lodge experience of our time, the only sort of Indian vision quest we can schedule into our daily planner.Our Stair Master to Heaven.

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.