“When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.”

“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”

“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”

“Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”

“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”

“As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”