I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.

Forcing yourself to shiver is one of the hardest things on your muscles and isometrics.

I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the way he likes to have fun.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.