if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.