It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

Trust only him who doubts.

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

Adrian sifted through the bags and pulled out a slice of coconut cream. "If I were a dragon, this is what I'd go for." I didn't argue, mainly because that statement had no logical argument.