[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

Who knows not sacrifice may never gain freedom.

He was king, if he didn’t have enemies he wasn’t doing it right.

I am in prayer for his kids and the family.

You must decrease the amount of food you eat and increase the amount of exercise you get. That is all there is to it.

Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.

Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.

The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get an amanuensis who will write for you.

There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.