I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.
The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.
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.