If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.

You know the Buddhists believe that sometimes when everything is in turmoil, it's because something wonderful is ready to be born and that thing is distracting you so it can have some privacy during the birthing process.

I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.