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

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.

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.

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.

Maybe, in the end, a home is a place where you have no other choice but to stay.

If there's one thing I can say when it's my time to look back over my glorious life is I lived, bravely and fiercly in the chaos of it all.

If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.

I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.

Youth is just wasted on young people.

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.