Creativity is a continual surprise.

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.

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year