“Try something different. Surrender.”

“If you want something different out of life, you need to try something different and change the rules a bit.”

“Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated”

“Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that doesn't work, trying something else. Welcoming clutter Surrendering a good idea for a better one. Knowing you won't find the finish line for a year or two, or five...”

“I'm tired of being lost and I'm tired of dying, so I'm going to try something different this time.”

“What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.”