The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I delight in what I fear.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.

Look ahead and gaze on the sun!

You can't NOT cross the street because you might get hit by a car.

Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

We've been looking outside us for our own peace. We've been looking in the wrong direction.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.

Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.