When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house.

If I had to describe the scent of Michigan in spring and summer, it wouldn't be aparticular smell – blooming wildflowers or boat exhaust off the lake – it would be a color: Green.

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

Our performance during this World Cup has not been enough to progress further and both myself and all the players regret that and are hurt more than people realise.

Hallelujah and Hare Krishna are quite the same thing.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.

Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.

It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.