Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don't want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good.

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Life is a lonely business

Life is a lonely bussiness

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

My motto for creat

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.

I'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

Only one flagFlies above all the rest:The flag of universal oneness.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.