Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

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

...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.

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

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?

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.