I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

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.

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.