Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.