In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.

Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to see them for what they are.

Even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtful. A little later, after a few days or months, how much is really left of it?

Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.

Once upon a midnight dreary

Good-bye, Graystripe. I love you. Take care of our kits.

In fact, many children come to autism clinics early on with GI/bowel disturbances.

Innovation got hip. It got cool. I prefer the people who investigate the world out a brute sense of curiosity, a fundamental sense of play.

Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?

There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

I love indie record stores, man. I love anything that's about independence and preserving the brand of good music.