we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

And what if I don't want forgiveness?