A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.

Literature is the real life of imaginary people.

These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.

That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.

Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.

i can't hold onto love.i'm not gentle enough.i always end upcrushing the thingin between my fingertips.

Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.

Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God.

Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.

Only when you stop doing what doesn't work, can things get better.

No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions.