Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

You think you have a memory; but it has you!

The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.

I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go without it for a while, but then I need it.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.