"I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility."

"I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life."

"The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'."

"The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am."

"Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are."

"I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books."

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

"Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired."