As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.

Don't be outraged, be outrageous.

Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.

Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.

Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.