Daily life is always extraordinary when rendered precisely.

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.

Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.

Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.

Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

How we learn is what we learn.

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Fortify your mind, bullet proof your heart, strengthen your soul.

Never allow yourself to be defined by some else's opinion of you....unless they hold a higher opinion of you than you have for yourself.

Studies find that kids who are punished are more likely to misbehave in the future. Punishment actually increases the undesired behavior.

Football is more important to me than money right now.

In a well-made garden every day is new.

A lot of times I pick passion projects but at the end of the day, I don't think much of what's going to work, I want to think about how it feels to do the work.

I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.

It is, ... kind of a softball atmosphere out there.

I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.