No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them..

Life is a tragedy full of joy..

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station..

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and….

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go..

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud..

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others..

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall..

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness..

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty..

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom..

First drafts are for learning what your story is about..

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing..

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish..

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness..

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly..

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention..

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are..

You can't eat language but it eases thirst..

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading..

Where to look if you've lost your mind?.