Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.
I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.
You can make anything by writing.
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.