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" The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. "

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" Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine. "

" I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. "

" 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. "

" In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. "

" A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. "

" A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "

" At the typewriter you find out who you are. "

" When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. "

" The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. "

" A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans. "

" If little else, the brain is an educational toy. "

" I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me. "

" Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. "

" Education is for growth and fulfillment. "

" In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury. "

" Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. "

" Well, I have never, ever Googled myself. "

" The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. "

" Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom. "

" Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. "

" Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. "

" I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. "

" I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic. "

" People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. "

" When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself. "

" A writer needs a life of introspection. "

" I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends. "

" The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.' "

" I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. "

" The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. "