I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?