The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page.

Don’t let anybody ever tell you life’s fair. Not as long as I’m in it.

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

On I’ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me.On whatfeverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot – I, so bigand by no one needed?

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel, think and want.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

People who say they don't have time, in fact have no plans to do anything.

Everyone has a given a chance to live life to the fullest, every moment and memories you make is your choice.

I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

To move forward simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest just happens as a beautiful and effortless flow.

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.