“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”

“Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.”

“Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.”

“You've got so much up aheadYou'll make new friendsYou should see your kids and wifeAnd I'd end up saying have no fearThese are nowhere near the best years of your life”

“Writing one page a day equals a 365 page novel in a year.”

“One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.”

“The very idea of higher states of consciousness is absurd. Comparing one state of consciousness to another and saying one is "higher" and the other is "mundane" is like eating a banana and complaining it's not a very good apple.”