Doing anything worthwhile will present challenges, but everyone who achieves their goal is an ordinary person who becomes extraordinary.

Whatever your dreams may be, never dismiss them as impossible. Always hope. Always try. You just never know when things will happen.

As writers, we should remind ourselves, and each other, that Jane Austen and JK Rowling got rejected by publishers, too.

I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.

Love makes you stupid. Love makes you weak. Love will kill you all one day, and it’s going to kill you today.

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

Children and fooles speake true.

A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.

Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.

If Bach is not in Heaven, I am not going!