See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Love, it is timeless. It can transcend the very limits of time and space, as long as it stays forever true in our hearts.

Never forget that each woman is, as a hole in a pocket, which no one can repair, and close that.

Every year I will stock my locker up with body wash, different lotions, different oils and different creams.

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

Sales is the parent of marketing.

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

That man is idle who can do something better.