My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

To be human is to be in a story.

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

There are only two times. Now and too late.

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation.

When I feel good, the crowd is behind me, have a great spirit, I think I can be very tough to beat.

I'll tell you one thing, I know how to satisfy my wife in bed, yeah, I leave.

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.