All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.

The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.

Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.