Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.