Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

You might see that I am a writer for a reason. In speech and from my mouth we taste the words unseasoned. It's teasing the truth which to my mind reeks of treason.

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.