“Eating was easy. Thinking was hard.”
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
“Sometimes writing is easy. Other times it’s as hard as trying to eat a whole whale, after the whale has just eaten you.”
“Don't for once ever think that what you're doing is easy. If it feels that way, you're probably doing something wrong. Throwing words onto a page is easy. But writing, the real kind, is hard. It's damn hard.”
“I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers.”
“I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.”