Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something.

But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun.

There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.