Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Take accountability... Blame is the water in which many dreams and relationships drown.

...nothing ever as much as begun, nothing ever but nothing and never, nothing ever but lifeless words.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

I really need people to take responsibility for the kind of energy they bring to me.

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two things sit well together, that's my main criteria when I write.