I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

We, as human beings, enjoy freedom of choice.Your attitude is your choice!

When you have a strong company culture it will shine through your brand and you can authentically say, “This is what our brand is about.

I am not mean at all, I am not tough at all.

I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

People don't know how to deal with stress and depression, so they're nasty to other people because it makes them feel better about themselves.

But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

There's nothing like a little Gideon therapy to make things look up.