“Portals of divinity are everywhere.”

Hallucination is a raw climb to a dead end.

So much time is spent on belief. So little time is spent on love!

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

I have been blessed by God. And if I’m blessed, there is one reason and one reason only, and that is to help others.

When we feel sad, all we need to do is to count our blessings, no matter how few we notice.

Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.

Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss – Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down.

Everyone has a watched life. Everyone is both the observer and the observed.

To have a future we have to live and leave the present.

With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all.

Indifference is a quarantined difference.

I really like working by myself without any distractions, learning from my own mistakes.

I detest only the violence and trauma that any self-centered conduct can cause to others.

So we can feel grateful for what we have been given. Sadness soon disappears and, in return, we get inspired to bless others.

Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.

I don’t belong to any denomination or religion, I just belong to God.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.

People, when they come up to me, are like, “Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?” And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst.

The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.

You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about.

When we’re not defending and justifying, and we’re being very still, our answers can and do shock us.