I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.

Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.