It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

Nothing important comes with instructions.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

I'm Blunt because God rolled me that way

There are literally billions of people on earth. There are some that won’t admit it, but all of those people want friends.

Health is not a condition of matter but of Mind.

Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

I really enjoy what I do and have been fortunate to pursue basically whatever I'm feeling at the time.

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga.