I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Art is not in some far-off place.

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

Non-violence is a permanent attitude we bring to the breakfast table and bring to bed at night.

Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.

If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

I think the relationship between print and film is symbiotic, it's more about evolving and complimenting your existing content. The two are very much interconnected.

I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more important than being addicted.

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

I know all about the tyranny of women.