I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.

Tell a female she's thin and she's yours for life.

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

You cannot blame our decisions on anyone, Moriah. They were all made byyou, alone.Clarion, to MoriahAngels Unaware

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

The quality of the pass leads directly to the quality of the shot

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.