If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.

Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.