A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

Live the beauty or your own reality.

You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary.

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.