A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, ...

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair the sense that you can never completely put on the page what in your mind and hear ...

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

You must not come lightly to the blank page.