Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

If you won't believe in yourself, who will?

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age.

The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.

You create your own reality. There is no other rule.

I have the faith that even at my lowest points, there will come a silver lining through faith.

I never stopped believing in my ability or what I was doing. I want to pass that sense of faith and perseverance on to others.