No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.

Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.

When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.