Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

Swimming always cleans your soul

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society

You don't use mayonnaise, why? ... Are you addicted to mayonnaise? Is it okay if I use mayonnaise? I could go outside.

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

Reformed rakes often make the best husbands

You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success.

The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing.