Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

The monster nevers dies.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.