I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.

Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.

Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.

I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.