Quotes

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.

Between grief and nothing I will take grief.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild...