Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

Do not hide your light for fear of what others may think of you. Let it shine and be a reflection of what is possible.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

I don't like it when people don't know the difference between their, they're, there.

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.