I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.

I do believe this: That what we call love is always available to us. And of course I'm not just talking about passion. I'm talking about love where you just can't conceive that your life isn't perfect, that you can't conceive of wanting anything.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.