It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is ….

We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know wh….

People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred p….

Get ticked and get going..

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated..

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once..

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence..

I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool..

As thy days, so shall thy strength be..

I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they migh….

You got to get it while you can..

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech..

Without the piano, I would never have attempted to rap, because I'm a poor rapper. I'm enthusiastic, but it takes me a long time to write eight bars ….

Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if….

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason wh….

I cannot pretend i am not without fear..

People try to be more edgy, or write about that first explosive meeting between two people in a club, but not so much the long-term issues; I don't k….

Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was stressing about writing and a friend taugh….

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music..

If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I we….