If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

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.

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

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

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.