Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind.

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.