“Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it’s that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard.”

But editors are still the world’s readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.

… but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive.

I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from?.

The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.

I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step.

When I was younger, I felt like I could say anything and it was funny.