Nor should failure be considered a total loss.

Live with boldness! Get drunk with all of the beauty of life.

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

I've learned to allow myself the room to fall in love with what I'm writing.

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

I write in a small office at home.

I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.