If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

Everyone knows everything eventually.

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.