Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything.

No matter how hard you dance, not everyone will clap

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Look into my eyes, they will tell you how much I love you.

You have to realize that modern power, is nothing but a concept in the mind of the one who’s under the power. And once you realize this, you realize that authority is indeed an illusion.

Let's enjoy love: without it we cannot live.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.

My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.

Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.

My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.

That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.