Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

Do not compare yourself to anybody!

You’re insane.”“It’ll work.”“Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.

If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

The main thing is just really to play my game... and while you are playing the match, as it goes along, you kind of figure things out.

I know what I want to do and there's no point giving my secrets away.

You know, Alix, men suck. Really. They are the worst. Come with me. I need an estrogen fix before their chromosomal defects contaminate me any further. (Zarina)

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.