I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

It's all about letting the story take over.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

You cannot cherish God without loving people

In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.

We can finally start translating the book, " Cate said. "At least, I think we

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?

I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.

I was the one that allegedly "quit and joined my old band." That wasn't true. But it was said so matter-of-factly on the Internet that the guys weren't really sure what I was up to.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.