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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"When life gives you pain, give life your unconditional love."

"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
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"I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways."

"I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes."

"Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true."

"When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not."

"I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it."

"I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen."

"My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective."
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