Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.

Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.