A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.

You're like a tornado of bullshit right now. We'll talk again when your bullshit dies out over someone else's house.

I don't need shoes. I need a night scope. You think they sell night scopes someplace here?

Light and flow is what shifts the world’s vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends.

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.

It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)

You might be a redneck if you keep a fly swatter in the front seat of the car so you can reach your kids in the back seat of the car.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!