I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.

Hope costs nothing.

To be blind momentarily when light hits your eyes is better than to be blind permanently when darkness hits your soul.

How we remember what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

What force is more potent than love?

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

I have no idea how to start doing something that doesn't connect with me or my soul, somehow.

The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

Listen to the customer's complaint and act fast.