The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.

I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

To a predator, fear indicates weakness.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.