writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

Writing is an antisocial act.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

Arnold was a dog's dog. Whenever he shuffled along walks and through alleyways, he always gave the impression of being on to something big.

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

Talking's just a nervous habit.

Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die.

Because...because...she came here with me.

Women were expected to sit in the pews, receiving messages from men in the pulpit. Their role was to recognize God in their pastor, not to expect or demand that he recognize God in them.

Be careful what you choose to experience, because you never remain the same person as earlier. Something intrinsically changes you forever!

All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.