...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.