When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.
Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.
Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
Not writing at all leads to nothing.
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.
A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any.
A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.
It means the most when your team always supports you.