I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.

Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.