One does not consider style, because style is.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

It's all about letting the story take over.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

Are you coming back to campus or you sticking around here with the prick?

Tie everyone you meet today with your garland of love and kindness.

Communication happens on the periphery between two minds while communion melts two beings into one! What are YOU?

Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

I'm a really restless person; I'm tired of the way I sounded or looked yesterday. So it's hard to hang onto this image of me as this young Swedish female in this world.

Every human emits unconscious vocal undertones that determine who the leader is in the room.

No one has a clue how to build a conscious machine, at all. We have less clue about how to do that than we have about build a faster-than-light spaceship.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.