“To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.”

“If you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.”

“In the end, despite all your careful introspecting, you pay for following your instincts. And the more intensely and honestly you live, the more incessantly you pay. If you have become that particular, irreducible person, you get precisely what you want but no more. This is the unforgiving truth.”

“‎"Thinking you've lost everything when times are tough only proves to how little you pay attention to what you really have.”

“When your afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.”

“Open your eyes, ears, mind, and consciousness for the truth is right in your face. You can see it but only if you would pay attention!!!”