Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Art is not in some far-off place.

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

Human needs rules and penalties.Lessons require heroes and villains.Ignore them, then welcome to the jungle.

You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try

No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.

Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds . . . the race will survive.

Authority figures always attract trouble

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.