I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

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.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

My friends are my second family. Sometimes friends can understand my problem but my family can't.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

Hume's paradox does hold: power is in the hands of the governed. If they refuse to accept it, you're in trouble, no matter how many guns you have.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

Liberalism, socialism, whatever, it is such a corrupting, destructive thing. And I believe it's the most destructive force in the world today, outside of, militarized weaponry and that kind of thing.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.