Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.

Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.