Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

Make peace with what is.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)

If your business still needs to change, isn’t it likely that your thinking needs to change first?

Without the incense of heartfelt prayer even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.

We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.

...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

Hey! Don't laugh at me for that cupcake thing. I enjoy cupcakes, therefore EVERYONE should enjoy cupcakes.