1. “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
2. "How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought..."
3. “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
4. "Is there no way out of the mind?"
5. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”
6. “Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”
7. “There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”