“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.”

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

“Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.”

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

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

“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.”

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”