“There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.”

“The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.”

“Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.”

“Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.”

“Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.”

“Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.”

“I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,mate...”

“Let's have some new cliches.”

“One of the most common platitudes we heard was that words failed. But words were not failing us at all. It was not true that there was no way to describe our experience. We had plenty of language t...”

“Awful first drafts are fineAgree with this.If you dont finish something, youll never get in the game. Just quell the voice in your head that says Are you kidding? No one is going to want to read th...”

“Mostly writing requires massive dedication, a whole lot of time spent alone, way too much sitting, countless hours spent thinking hard, and unending and occasionally painful dedication to forming i...”

“Awful first drafts are fine—Agree with this.If you don’t finish something, you’ll never get in the game. Just quell the voice in your head that says “Are you kidding? No one is going to want to rea...”

“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”

“There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in ord...”

“Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.”