Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.