You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.

If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.

I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition.

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.

You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

Let your love be your guide. Let your courage be your driver, and let your passion be your road to enjoy this magnificent life to the fullest.

A journey through nature is always a road thatleads to self-discovery.

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.

Opening your chakras and allowing cosmic energies to flow through your body will ultimately refresh your spirit and empower your life.

Grace woke you up this morning, grace started you on your way and grace enabled you to survive until this very moment.

I want to get better. That's the only way to progress. So I'm just young having fun making music.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.