Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuck's book across the room because we secretly wonder if God in heaven noticed our evil jealousy, or worse, our laziness. We then lie across the couch facedown and mumble to God to forgive us because we are secretly afraid He is going to dry up all our words because we envied another man's stupid words. And for this, as I said, we are paid a dollar. We are worth so much more.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...

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

You can't give what you don't have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.

You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a book, you can open it again and again.

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

We are the author of our own destruction.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

We are writing the history of our time.

We write to give strength to the soul of the spirit.

Be the author of your life.

Life is a rich literature. We are only writing the history of our time.

The written word is greatest sacred documentation.

We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.

A reader knows the mind of sacred souls.

I see the beauty of books and sacred-souls of every author displaced in a bookshop.

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.