Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

poems are small moments of enlightenment

Writing is the act of discovery.

The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

Begin with “I remember.” Write lots of small memories. If you fall into one large memory, write that. Just keep going. Don’t be concerned if the memory happened five seconds ago or five years ago.

It’s good to go off and write a novel, but don’t stop doing writing practice.

Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread the line you have just written. That’s stalling and trying to get control of what you’re saying.)

Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.

My theory is that the Supernatural is the Impossible, and what is called the supernatural is only something in the laws of nature of which we have been hitherto ignorant.

I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.

We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.

You dont know me, you just met me, well if i couldnt have it..silly rabbit, why ya sweat me

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.