You and I cannot afford to wait on the validation of others to get moving.

You don't have to be broken to create something beautiful. You have to be willing.

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.

You must thrive to flood the nose and mouth of those who hate you and can't wait to see you fail.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.

What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.