Literature cannot be imposed it must be discovered.

Who we are now is all that really matters.

Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.

Words are a puzzle put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.

That’s the way life is sometimes: you can fix things up, but you can’t make them all better.

Writing is easy. Writing well is hard work.

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.

I know what the teaching is, but to realize the teaching in a life experience, the sh*t really is an opportunity to find out who we truly are. To really learn and to awaken to our potential.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

In many, many ways... Hufflepuff is my favorite house.

Sometimes I look around cable news and it's like you wonder whether you're looking at anchors or authors.

Jewellery takes people's minds off your wrinkles.