Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.

If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique.

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

You see certain people and get the intuition that they are related to you in a way unspecified, important to you for the reasons unidentified. You bet I had received my turn of hunch!

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way.