Well, it all started when I figured out that the janitor at my high school was the Angel of Death…

Love is a song, written in your heart.

What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

I'm always doubting my work, even when people are kind enough to say good things. I still have a hard time believing I've written some books, let alone that they've actually done pretty well.

My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.

A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.