Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain, your face dissolving, changing shape, the colours running together My walls absorb you, breathe you forth again, you resume yourself, I do not recognize you You rest on the bed watching me watching you, we will never know each other any better than we do now

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going to happen.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.