Anyone can be a story. Everyone is.

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

I stare out at the real world projected on the windows

His suffering was no more real than he was.

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.

It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.

I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.

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

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

I don't believe in failure. I believe every setback is an opportunity to learn, regroup, get stronger, and try again.

He worships God who knows him.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

Anger... it's a paralyzing emotion... you can't get anything done.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home