Character is defined by what you do when no one is looking, but the visible can shatter any perfect impression.

The more you doubt your talent and strive to improve, the better the writer.

One single letter cures the blank page.

Beauty in its simplest form doesn't need appraisal or constant change

She cleans a toilet inside and out under a minute. More like terrifying

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.