"In high school, I had a teacher there who was really great to me and with whom I finally dared to admit I wanted to be a writer myself, and we did a project where I wrote terrible, 17-year-old fiction. But I remember a couple of the stories. I'd love it if I could read with pride something that I wrote that long ago, but it hasn't happened yet."

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“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.”
“Well, in regards to surfing, Iâ€™ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly you get caught inside, if you can just hang in there and keep paddling, the set is going to pass and there will be a lull afterwards. So donâ€™t give up, just take your pounding, wait until the set passes, then make your move.”
“You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something.”
“I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.”
“It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure an increase in the number of murders, well, it will mean that they have been quite useful in some way or another."”
“Figure out what you believe in and what you're willing to fight for, then figure out what your special talents are and apply them to it.”
“I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.”
“I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages.Â If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it.Â I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture.Â It has to move all the time... It's not the stage.Â A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson.Â Their eyes need to be dazzled.Â The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.”

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