I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

When i want to hear new music, i make it

I think I really see myself doing TV more than ever.

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.