The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

Any representation of God produces accordingly.

Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.

When you can bear your own silence, you are free.

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

He that runs may read.