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 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.'

Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

EVERYONE NEED EDUCATION, ITS THE NEED OF A NATION, IN IT IS FUTURE'S FOUNDATION, IT LEADS TO HEARTS ASPIRATION, AND TOMORROWS INSPIRATION.

I had stopped doing anything for myself. I no longer felt like an individual because for thirteen years, I was one-half of a “we.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.

Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.

I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.