Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.

Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever.

Actually, when I did "10,000 B.C.," in the middle of production, I wanted to quit my job, because everything went wrong.

Family makes life whole to me.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.

Authenticity is really important, and sometimes thats really hard to get.