Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.

I'm not leaving until you stop crying" he stated pulling me down so we were now laying on my bed facing each other

The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel.”“Awesome.”“Maybe, but it’s code’s all it is.

Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.

I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common