Don’t you want to be alive before you die?
Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.
Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.
It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.