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" Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. "

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" Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe. "

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

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

" In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. "

" 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. "

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

" I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.' "

" John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A writer needs a life of introspection. "

" If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. "

" Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. "

" To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. "

To Be Or Not To Be

" If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. "

" I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. "

" There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. "

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

" I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. "

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

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

" Writing is the hardest physical work there is. "

" The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape. "

" We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. "