itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling

Once upon a time, there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.

The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.

You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Don't vote, it only encourages them.

When it comes to music, I'm definitely thinking [about] what I would like to hear.

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.

A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out.

More bad news for the Taliban. Remember how they are promised 72 virgins when they die? Turns out that it's only one 72-year-old virgin.

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.