Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

Be unwilling to lose.

There lived great souls in history.

Know what the best thing your true love can give you is?” I asked him.“What?” said Dash.“True love.

We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

Take pictures with your heart.

In order to do great things, you have to take on challenges in your life. Im doing nothing but taking on different challenges.