Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.
Cries for help are frequently inaudible.
Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.
You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning ’til dee sun come up.
I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn.
Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.
If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.
Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary, but it was kind of a background music for my life.
Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can’t help but make you better.
I never outline. I don’t work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don’t know how it’s going to end.
Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right.
The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.
If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.
The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.
Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.