Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Words at night were feral things.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

One writes to find words' meanings.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.

When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!

I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.

In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.

We have to address the issues which prevent clean cities, clean rivers, regular, uninterrupted supply of essentials like water and electricity.

May the Lord array thee in the garment of salvation and surround thee with the cloak of happiness.

I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.