I do that with all of my characters. They have one of the flaws I have, and I zero in on that flaw.

I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.

I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.

Words were different when they lived inside of you.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

You are thirst and thirst is all I know

The way you spend your time daily determines how effective your life will be

The world made me cold. You made me water. One day we'll be clouds.

Any creature, even one as unassuming as a fish, can become something mighty. When they courageously endure their trials, they meet their destiny.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up with something!

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.

Everybody has their own soul.

Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.