In the middle of nowhere, a trunk heavy with gold is a burden, not treasure.

Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

Your life may be really boring in reality, but online you're a competitive superhero.

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.

The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are.

'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

We have so many things that we have to do better,and certainly cyber is one of them.

But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair, and that extra burst of speed from all the bullies shouting Kill the fairy.

To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.

What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive, and then just smile for a while about them.

I do not give up, I never give up, for there is nothing in this entire world that is irrevocably unchangeable.

If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.