It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
We can only learn to love by loving.
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.