No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you think, when the doors are closed in other houses, this is what it's like everywhere. And then at some point you begin to realize that isn't true, and books were really the educational system that showed me that there were many better and different ways to live a life.

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.