...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.