I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow.
A star is a person who shines so brightly,who gives their gifts so fully,who loves so completely that everyone is drawn by the light of this star to find the way home.
Our lives show the accumulation of all of our varied wishes. Wanting something with all your heart will begin to slough away all of your untrue and idle wishes. Success comes from an undivided heart.
If you can't handle your neurosis, your neurosis will handle you.
Passion is taking such a bite out of life that when the juices run down your face, everyone licks their lips!
If it hurts, it isn't love.
Inspiration means that you don't have to figure things out, or think about them. Ideas and answers pop into your head and the energy carries you forward, if you allow it. Planning. . . is a way of ritually killing inspiration, which transcends the need for planning.
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
Very little strength can produce much motion of air. Learn about air as motion.
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.