Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.
Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.
My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.
Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.
The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?
I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party. I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people - as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that.
Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.