All wisdom ends in paradox.

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of reality, and if that changed conception led to a change in behavior and action, a loss of ego.

They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.