Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

A book is a loaded gun.

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.