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

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?

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

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.

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

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