You change the rhythm of the talk and respoonse and you change the rhythm between the talk and the response.

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.

We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.

I wake up to find magic, I seek dreams and I crave imagination. This is my creed.

Fit yourself where you are before you fix yourself where you can be!

Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in the toilet, that’s all we are.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them.

This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.

To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.