Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions of the 1900s, 20th century.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

Science disembodies; art embodies.

Life is a game; so we should know very well how to play it.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.