A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.