Begin with “I remember.” Write lots of small memories. If you fall into one large memory, write that. Just keep going. Don’t be concerned if the memory happened five seconds ago or five years ago.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

poems are small moments of enlightenment

Writing is the act of discovery.

The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

It’s good to go off and write a novel, but don’t stop doing writing practice.

Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread the line you have just written. That’s stalling and trying to get control of what you’re saying.)

If you surround yourself with people who don't care about you, be prepared for a life of misery.

the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.

I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.

If You Do Not Know, it is Useless to Explain, Because You Would Not Understand"__nickc

The only time we fail is when we stop trying.

Love’? What do you know about love?” "It’s at the heart of every story,” Rollo said with authority. “If humans could avoid falling in love, you would never get yourselves into any trouble.

You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

I wish to create trends rather than follow them.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

If I didn't have [a] wife, maybe I can say, 'Yeah, I'm disappointed I'm not maybe good looking.' ... I don't know about China, but in Russia, I still look good.