“You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work.”

“You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.”

“If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.”

“The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.”

“You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.”

“Whatever makes you weird, is probably your greatest asset.”

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

“Whatever pain you can't get rid of, make it your creative offering.”

“It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.”

“You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.”