It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

I learned years ago that love could be temporary and still be love.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

I was told by a physician to avoid any line of work where people need to, um, depend on me for anything.

My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'

La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.

Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

Your absence has gone through me