“Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.”

“You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.”

“Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.With your own voice,' he said.”

“Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.”

“Part of liberation is being free to do your own thing and letting everyone else be free to do theirs.”

“Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the easy part. The hard part is what's right in front of you. The hard part is learning how to hold the title to your very existence, to own not only property, but also your life.”