Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Talent & skills are useless & won't get you anywhere, without lot of practise, commitment & prioritization.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

Life is a journey I don't have a map for.

Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.

Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.

It takes a lot of un-spectacular preparation, to get spectacular results

I've been very fortunate and I am grateful.