Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

If your ears are bigger than your mouth, you will go very far in life.

Just remember even your worst days only have 24 hours.

And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

It means zero to be against greed.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.

Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.

Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.