Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

Life is a vacation from two eternities.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.