I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.

Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide Day.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing. It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects.