I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.