There is no grief like heartbreak.
I hate to talk about myself.
If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.
I didn't love school.
Even an atheist finds God when they point at what they don't believe in.
Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.
If i had known better, I would have done better.
Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.
I won't look it in the eye. As soon as I do, I get scared. You gotta walk the plank at some point, but at first you gotta put blinders on or you'll overthink things. I think it's dangerous, by the way, to do a lot of talks about your art, to do so much talking and so little making. You get the wrong idea about yourself.
When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.