Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

Be joyful for the fruit of your labour.

At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden.

Many stories magnify a fact.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

Whenever you say 'yes' to anything, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your 'yes' is worth the less.

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

I never imagined that I would be the kind of person who is recognized when I am out and about just living my life.

If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.