It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Macey couldn't decide whether to be intrigued that Hale was walking around with a state-of-the-art covert communications device or be jealous because she'd been caught without one of her own.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

To not care about how you look will make you look even more attractive.

I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

There is some CO2-water vapor feedback. But it's not operating on a global scale. The modellers cannot accurately separate water vapour from the effects of clouds and rainfall.