To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

Another way to be awakened by the beauty and complexity of the word is to get a dog. Small Things like a plant that I had passed a thousand time and never given a second thought to. But the dog is curious. And the dog stops and wants to smell this and smell that. And the dog makes you look and focus and take the time.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself