“Love is endless, you can never run out no matter how much of it you give away.”

“In this profession mistakes are all a part of it. If you write something flawlessly you've done something wrong.”

“Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction.”

“Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed mistakes lead to bad reviews. Bad reviews are the tools of the dark side.”

“The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.”

“An organism is not an inert lump of matter, but a dynamic system: it survives by taking in new matter, extracting energy from it, and then expelling it. Matter flows through an organism like water through a fountain, only slower.”

“If you thought about it you'd realize that you don't have control over everything, but you control how you react”