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Mentors can suggest to you what more you are capable of.

Heaven preserve me from the Epidemic of a Proud Ignorance!

The future of the book began to appear among imaginary woods.

A more typical writing day for me is being constantly interrupted.

How does he do it? I’ve been trying to figure this out for the past decade.

I like to think of love as something that one should keep feeding, like a fire.

Best part of the day? The part when I come up with an idea for a cartoon.

It helped me free myself from a longtime source of unhappiness.

Most days, at the pool, we are able to leave our troubles on land behind.

Love’s not all that fun, but it saves you. And you should be saved.

This is kind of a big, wet valentine, isn’t it? Shouldn’t you throw it out?

Favorite character? What a question. It’s like choosing a favorite child.

Henry Chinaski is just so deplorable and lovable; he makes me laugh.

I’m obsessed with finding a convertible that has enough room.

I usually get my best writing done at night or at the close of day.

Love is the difference between a full life and an empty one.

I’ve found that love has provided my life’s happiest moments.

Don’t write what you know. Write what you can imagine.

I once heard in a sermon, “Choose the important over the urgent.”

A friend of my father’s once told me, “You’ll never be a writer.”

Love enlarges. What you put out into the world, you get back tenfold.

I know now not to measure my insides against others’ outsides.

Art doesn’t conform to a capitalist’s ratio of productivity to time.

Love is not something you wait for passively, but a practice.

“Nobody asked you to write.” Over time, I realized it was a magic key.

I love talking to girls. That’s why I’ve written so much about them.

The Great Gatsby had an awful, detrimental effect on me.

One of my stories was rejected by a journal as “theatrical and self-limiting.”

I’m a big fan of then. A novel needs a lot of thens.