One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

The northern soldiers are just men, ” Hal told the men in his command. “And women, ” he amended. “When you cut them, they bleed, just like us.

I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

A good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.

Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.

I'm still doing me. I try to come up with different concept for my shows, you gotta keep the people interested, but I'm still me.

The work doesn't begin until you get tired!

Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!

I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.