We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Don't pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.

I change every day. I'm still changing.

Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.