Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Words at night were feral things.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

One writes to find words' meanings.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

We don't know Where God is, Who God is or What God is… BUT GOD IS!

Everyone appears to be courageous until bad weathers arrive, and then we know the true leaders.

I looked at his face, unsure of how many more of his smiles I'd have.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

In the end of the day, I feel pretty good about the contributions you can make.

To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it

The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.

Rap is just to me very annoying.

I am a session guy and a studio musician and whatever you need me to do I will do it.

As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.