A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Words at night were feral things.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

One writes to find words' meanings.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.

Who brings out the champion in you?Those that help you be the hero of your story, keep them close.

Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.

Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent

When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. Its how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.