“Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.”

“What is more yours than what always holds you back?”

“You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”