In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back.

Keep moving. Have a goal, One day you will arrive at a place that is better than the place where you were, even if it is only in your head.

The only thing that can create discord between friends is money and women.

You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

You can't be human alone.

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

We suffered for our music. Now, it's your turn.

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.