Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.