Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.

You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can't dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home.

Want! You must want something. What do you want?

The human heart is a dark forest.