Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

I think writing should be about change.