“The idea is to get your life to where it is doable, manageable, and somewhat in order.”
“...sometimes it's worth proposing the impossible, if only so that the somewhat less impossible begins to seem doable by comparison.”
“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”
“Where did you get the idea that the most wonderful thing I could be in life was obedient?”
“Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.”
“Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from...”