What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Kita tidak perlu jadi hebat, kita sudah dilahirkan hebat. Yakin & teruskan perjalanan!

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby...

At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

They say "Wine is Satan's falcon,"; apparently he uses it in hunting men!

Habit is a second nature.

You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.