The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

Nothing important comes with instructions.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.

For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

There is nothing that you shouldn't do. Everything can be used as a tool for liberation.

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

If you are what you eat, in my case, I'd be sweet so come and get some.

It must be made possible for the one to live vicariously the life of the many from the beginning.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

I still have this teddy bear I've had since I was three...and all my boxes, all kinds of boxes. I just won't give them up. It's like if I give them up, I've given in to being a movie star.