Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather, I see writing as a job of experiment. It's like any discovery job; you don't know what's going to happen until you try it.

You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.

If you purify the pond, the lilies die

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.