Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

I'm always presenting myself with problems to solve as a writer.

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.