The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

you ultimately become the one/what you hate.

Everyone is given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.

It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Most recently, I learned another hobby: baking. It's so much fun to mix all the ingredients and to see the cake come out nice. It's so rewarding when the cake comes out great and tastes great.