Live in the past, but don't remember too much.

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong.