The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.

In 1969 America put the man on the moon.In 2016 America put the man in the women's bathroom.

I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

Truth is not what I say it is, and not what you think it is. Truth is what God's word says it is.

I don't go by the rule book

I never sold drugs. A lot of people used to think I was that dude but I never sold a crumb. I used to always be upset with that.

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.