Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not.

There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books. I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is. I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and stand by their own ideas.

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.