Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

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.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

We're all just moments and most of us don't matter. We study less than one percent of all humanity in our history books.

Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

I love good food. I’m an epicurean, that’s for sure. … But I am not really a good cook.

I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing.

Wise men hear and see as little children do.

In many cases the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

Producers are now employees, not creators.

Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.