If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

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.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.