We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.