One writes to find words' meanings.

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Words at night were feral things.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.

The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

Hollywood's just not funny.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the dog's owner - and the distance you are from your car.

Sometimes the only way to win is to die trying.

We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.

Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.

A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.

When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok.