When you realize the awesome power of words, you can change lives.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.