Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.

You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.

Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.

Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.

Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.

Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible.

You deserve to be happy, Dylan." "So do you." "Good thing we've got each other then, " she answers, tucking herself into my shoulder, and wrapping her arm around my back.

Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home.

On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.

I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.

I think my father would give me the Department of the Interior because of my love of the outdoors, so we can get that going.

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.