He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Don’t allow your thoughts of frustration allow you to make decisions out of desperation.

One of the biggest lessons people on Earth have is the false belief that looks, money and power are requirements for love, when it’s the opposite.

Most girls recently out of finishing school are like soufflés: puffed up, not very substantial inside, and prone to collapsing at the slightest provocation.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

Wealth that comes quickly, goeth the same way.

I learned to fly planes at fifteen years old because one of my teachers thought I'd be a better pilot than rapper.

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.