Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.