If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

I want to love like a rain drop loves the earth.

We're told to plug our nosesto escape the smells. Manure.Rot.Poverty?Reality.

Love gives strength to the spirit.

Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.

Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

I were but little happy could I say as much.

It's natural for me to step into the beat-making side of things next in the future.

If your heart is dead, know that the One who can give life to the dead body, can give life to your dead heart.