"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
"Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down."
"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam."
"I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years."
"We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."
"Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way."