I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.

I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

I love my Spanish fans!

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way.

It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built.

You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.

I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild.

You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.