You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu.

A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

When people divide, things end. Therefore: I won't divide because I don't want this to end.

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

Existence is governed by its own law. Here, the things impermanent by natureare bound to meet their end. Hence, with the passage of time, not only Ravana'sLanka but "Krishna's" Dwarka also sinks.

There is no balance, all or nothing.

The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him.

Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.