On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.

Because stories start in minds-- they aren't artifacts or natural phenomena.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Who you spend your time with is who you are, or who you will soon become.

It is easier to lie to yourself than hear others tell you that tell you that you are a fool.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

Talent always rises to the top

I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.