Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

Morality is the foundation of sadhana. Morality is the base, intuition is the way and Life Divine is the goal

You are not for the left or right team, but for what is right against the wrong.

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness...

I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.