When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

Shoulders are from God and burdens too.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.