Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.