When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.

Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.

Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow

In dire times you can lose joy, but you can't lose hope. Hope is your guide.