If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

What we fear we often rage against.

Surely the earth can be savedby all the peoplewho insiston love.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

Asking is the first level of prayer.

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.

I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.

He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.