Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

You never know how a good quest is going to end.

The resting place of the mind is the heart.

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.