It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

My depression was mild, and I could treat it by myself and pick myself up again. But some people aren't that lucky.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

But if she'd realized that nine desiccated zombie nymphs would be waiting for her, she never would have come down here.