When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

Nothing important comes with instructions.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.

Whats fun about being an actress is you change all the time.

Vampires can do whatever they want whenever they want, like fly around all the time. Plus, girls love vampires. Maybe they don't want to admit it, but they do, which is a plus.

Her life is deep, but I still dig her

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.

A man full of hope will be full of action.

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.