“I fix what's broken - except in the heart.”

“There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.”

“What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.”

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

“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea, to reform it . . . Revision is one of the true pleasures of writing.”

“In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.”

“When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.”