Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world.

Achievement and fearfulness can't stay together.

It's easy to be with someone who is completely different from you, but difficult when that person holds starkly different opinions from you.

You can never learn/improve if you are too proud to accept criticism.

Sometimes, we are simply trapped in the cage of our own emotions, unable to break those bars. It hurts!

It's difficult to carry the weight of responsibilities. But, it's more difficult to carry the weight of expectations.

Your promise is someone's hope. Keep your promises.

Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.

There's no rule for better writing. Make your own rules, and see what works best for you.

There's no rule for better writing. It's best to make your own rules, and see what works best for you.

It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.

Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years?

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.

I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes.

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

Listen to your fear but don't obey it.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.