Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.