I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anything, and they are consistency, consistency, consistency.They are such fragile creatures to begin with, with poor eyes, poorer hearing, and no sense of smell left to speak of, it's no wonder they are made of fear. Some centuries ago they moved inside and with that move went nine-tenths of their intuition. It is almost unmerciful to make them live so long when they spend their lives in so much pain.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

I write well on the road. I have the energy, I have the motivation to write. I'm happy when I'm on the road.

I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to other stuff I've noticed and seeing what happens.

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.