C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are what we pretend to be. (Mother Night)

Saul Bellow

You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.

Mark Twain

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.