I know my life is full of awkward pauses, and I think it's hilarious.
I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now. . . really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next
When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.
Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell
I feel like I'm addicted to the printed word.
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?
Love trumps hate. Courage loves fear. Right always trumps wrong.
It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.