When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Art is not in some far-off place.

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.

I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.