“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.”

“Imagination is a great thing for those who know how to use it, and very few can or everyone could do it”

“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”

“Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.”

“A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.”

“How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.”