Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.

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.

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.

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.

In life we all should learn to forgive but never forget. Best way to learn from our mistakes.

Most budget airlines anywhere in the world are going to leave you dissatisfied after using them.

I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.

If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank account. I'd be worth millions and millions.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the poor ... They have what I call a wealthy mindset.