If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging. I think as long as you keep your mind in the palce where you're actively looking for patterns, you may not be safe, but you're going to feel safe, I think.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.