It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

And sometimes when you fall... you fly...

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.

Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me over.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.