When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it

Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.