“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”

“Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.”

“Not all speed is movement.”

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”

“The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.”

“Our lives preserved. How it was and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.”

“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.”