“The best writing is certainly when you are in love.”

We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Hunger is good discipline.

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

I’m tired of everybody. Please forgive me.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

If I’ve learned anything, it’s really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.

There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.