This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.