You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

When two souls are united as one the universe itself is powerless to separate them.

Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

Best advice, bro: Think big. Don't think small. If you think small, then you're going to stay small. Think (about) the broad scope.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

I've had enough experience with knowing that things will turn out just fine. I pray for that. There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!