The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

Home is where your books are.

The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.