...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.

Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.

Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act.

Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that?

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.