Random Inspirational Quotes

"I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world."

"This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes."

"Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things."

"[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up."

"Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god."

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."

"Good fiction creates its own reality."

"Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom."

"Note to Self: Patent #10w Diving Mask for fish filled with water when oceans disappear."

"No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity"

"I guess I like things that take time and attention. More worthwhile that way."

"Trying to remember a dream from a decade ago is like trying to catch fog in a coffee filter. I could subsist on morning mist."

"This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever."

"I’m on a government watch list. But I’m not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour."

"All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive."

"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."

"I’m an all-the-water-I-can-drink-in-a-flower-vase kind of lover. Roses and batteries sold separately."

"No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out."

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

"Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either."