If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it."

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

What are we trying to practice every day? If our friendship depends onthings like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time,we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we haveleft is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in themiddle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other onceor twice?"

Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly altering the place where they were set.