My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep.

Prayer bends the omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

Is there a place you can go to break away for a little while? If you haven't yet built your tree house, it's never too late to start.

You can create the life you wish to have.

My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.

I found the experiences that I had with sexuality were wonderful, they were very uplifting - we had a good time - and they didn't seem to affect the level of my mediation.

I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.