Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.

Without continuous encouragement, we may give up.

One of the greatest skills—and gifts—is to focus on a person. Make them feel as though they’re the only person in the world.

Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.

Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind - that is, without our awareness.

Nothing is permanent. Not even the end of the world.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it.

There is no right life in the wrong one.

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.