No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it.
I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.
I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I think my karma is to be in the world.
What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now.
The concept of karma is a beautiful concept in Sanskrit. The whole idea of karma is that every being has an innate tendency - the karma of ice is to be cold, the karma of fire is to burn, the karma of the trees is to grow and bear fruit. In the same way, a human has a certain thrust. What I've realized is that my thrust is to be in the world, like in the world of business.
Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U. S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.
What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.
Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.
It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.
I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.
In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about the universe there's no escape from living. Death doesn't even end it.