“I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.”

“I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make ...”

“You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.”

“I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.”

“I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.”

“Free is the best. Anything free is good.”

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the me...”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”

“I will find you.In the farthest corner, I will find you.”

“The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”

“It's written, 'seek and ye shall find'. But first, 'imagine what you seek'.Otherwise, you will end up searching everything everywhere forever.”