Keep your dreams, you will never know when you need them

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

A warrior doesn’t worry. He or she evaluates the situation, investigates the source, calculates the risks and benefits, formulates a plan then puts it into action.

Have you spent so much time in the darkness that you cannot understand the light?

How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.