You know you can set fire to the capacity to say.

What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors in the world, a guy called Harry Stephen Keeler, a long dead American mystery writer. He was probably the greatest bad writer America ever produced.

I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.

I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you've done something.