“Be constantly on the lookout for people with a noble soul, extreme emotions, spontaneous smiles and sincere looks. People to write your future with.”

“Any suffering registered in your mind makes the emotion deeper. Maybe as a writer, I am constantly looking for tragedy.”

“Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.”

“I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.”

“(…) Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life, given to search for truth and to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas.”

“Your animal is able to show you unconditional, spontaneous and sincere love every day. It is a great example of life.”

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”

“You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly…. You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences.”

“I hate horses. I know people who think that they are noble, graceful animals, but regardless of what a horse looks like from a distance, never forget that it's as likely to step on your foot as look at you.”