Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.

Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.

Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.

One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the notion that we already have all that we need.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where I was scribbling a derivative [John Ronald Reuel ] Tolkien epic full of purple prose in tiny handwriting and thought to myself, "Damn! I am a writer! How did that happen?".