Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

If the problems you have this year are the same problems you had last year, then you are not a leader. You are rather a problem on your own that must be solved.

It would be superfluous todrive us mad, my dear Watson

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.

The greatness of a man is only measured by his urologist.

There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.

A bottle of wine was good company.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.

Pissing off PETA is as easy as pie. Delicious kitten pie.

Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.