I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagine- who are impressed by it, but rarely would anyone like it.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

Aku akan bahagia jika aku dan lari bisa menua bersama.

Luka fisik memang diperlukan saat mempelajari sesuatu yang penting dalam hidup.

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own value to live by, and the same holds true with me.

There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

When are you going to marry her? “As soon as I can find a preacher willing to perform a ceremony with a handcuffed and gagged bride, ” Zach replied grimly.

You have to accept that you'll never be good enough for some people. Whether that is going to be your problem or theirs is up to you.

I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

Let’s forget about time And dance our lives away

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.