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.

The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.

Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

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.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.

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