My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

I don't require myself or anyone to go beyond what they feel they can do. I just do suggest - for their own eventual happiness - that they go as far as they can. They can usually go much further than they think.

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.