It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars. So I think I'm as concerned about fairness and justice as anybody. But what disgusts me even more are people who have no imagination. The kind T. S. Elliot calls 'hollow men'. People who fill up that lack of imagination with heartless bits of straw, not even aware of what they're doing. Callous people who throw a lot of empty words at you, trying to force you to do what you don't want to.

Be fearless, be brave, be bold, love yourself

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.