The writer’s life is frightful

Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.

What you think of me is none of my business.

We are what we think.

I believe in miracles.

Love is stronger than hate.

Asking is the beginning of receiving.

We are what we are.

God is the Creator of all things.

Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.

A revived spirit, a renewed soul.

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well, " I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

I think family matters to me enormously. In fact, family is the first priority. If my family is good, I can do anything. If they're not, I'm a basket case.

Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.

I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.