Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

We evaluate, measure, and describe this world from our own point of view, but how does a tree see the world?

You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.

Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.

Then, only then would she realize that the life that she created will extinguish with nothing to offer but the sorrow that she harvested in our souls and the holes that she dug in our hearts.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble it's what we know that ain't so.

Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.

I don't think you necessarily have to put away your summer closet to go into fall. You can incorporate the fall pieces into your normal summer wardrobe.

I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

The best relationships are when you both want to make each other happy - you buy the groceries, I do the dishes.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.