Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

The heavenly Father foreknew the future.

When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful.

THE HOLIDAYS ARE RUINED!This book is one page long and just contains that one sentence.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.

I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.