1. “It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.”
2. “Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.”
3. “Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. talent alone is never enough.”
4. “silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.”
5. “Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”
6. “Anger is really disappointed hope.”
7. “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
8. “There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.”
9. “Betrayal betrays the betrayer.”
10. “Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.”
11. Keeping a journal implies hope.”
12. “Conflict is the soul of literature.”
13. “Art is always an energy exchange.”
14. “Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.”
15. “Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war”
16. “Hate generalizes; love is particular.”
17. “Singularity shows something wrong in their mind.”
18. “One writes not by will but by surrender.”
19. “The most important education you get is your own – the one you learn in solitude.”
20. “I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.”
21. “Th worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.”
22. “Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.”
23. “No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.”
24. “Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.”
25. “A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.”
