Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

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.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

The truth ain't pretty. That's how you can identify it.

Out of all the things we fake we can never fake to be positive.

I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.

I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all right; it didn't harm me too much.

Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

The whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet.

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.