If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Time is how you spend your love.
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single festive household, each with its own rituals and obsessions, rules and dreams. You didn't feel you could call people. They didn't feel they could phone you. How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons?
Friends make life a lot more fun.
It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.
Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.
The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master