My characters are galley slaves.
The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.
The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.
Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.
Love only serves and does not calculate.
When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.
Control thought-forms are the basis of our deepest moral crisis.
If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.
Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.
I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.
Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not the effect of reasoning, but the immediate consequence of perception. When philosophers have wearied themselves and their readers with their speculations upon this subject, they can neither strengthen this belief, nor weaken it; nor can they shew how it is produced. It puts the philosopher and the peasant upon a level; and neither of them can give any other reason for believing his senses, than that he finds it impossible for him to do otherwise.