Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.