Joseph Campbell

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.

All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road.