I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

Swimming always cleans your soul

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Salvation is the greatest soul.

Call me a Freak all u want really...I honestly take it as a compliment everytime. No matter how it was intended.

The internet is bringing our collective conscious together by showing the good and bad in humanity. Good Netiquette is the outcome.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

I don't like hockey. I'm just good at it.

The strong are so stupid.

When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree