No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Elizabeth Taylor's so fat she puts mayonnaise on aspirin.

Great performers welcome pressure.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.

I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies