The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.

The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.

know your ignorance

I only wish to read, think and write.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

All Catholics must ask themselves what they personally have done lately to build up the holiness of the church and ensure people feel welcomed and loved in it.