...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

Routine kills creative thought.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.

All seasons have something to offer

St. Elsewhere was certainly a great show

Some struggles are so solitary that they drown in words.

At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot.

So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.